Patents by Inventor Takeshi Matsumura

Takeshi Matsumura 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: 11918994
    Abstract: Sample contamination is suppressed by strengthening the air barrier of a work opening portion. A safety cabinet includes: a work room; a front surface door covering a part of a front opening portion of the work room; and a work opening portion on a lower side of the front surface door allowing a worker to work with his or her hand in. An intake port suctions air in the work room and outside air through the work opening portion on a front surface side of a workbench in a lower portion of the work room. A straightening plate drawing an air flow and a linear light source are provided on the work room side of the front surface door and above a front portion of the work room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Takeshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11885529
    Abstract: A pass box delivering an article with respect to a clean room includes a blower provided in an upper portion of the pass box, a first door on the clean room side, a first handle provided on the clean room side and opening and closing the first door, a first handle receiving portion rotating with the first handle in the pass box, a first handle receiving seat engaging with the first handle receiving portion in the pass box, and a storage stand provided in a lower portion of the pass box. The storage stand has a slit allowing air from the blower to be exhausted from an inner portion of the pass box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240027079
    Abstract: A laminar flow at a high air speed can be maintained, and contamination caused by operation of a device or operation of the device by a person can be suppressed as much as possible. There is provided a safety cabinet that supplies clean air into a work room from above, the cabinet including: an opening portion in a front surface of the work room; a front shutter; partition plates provided on right and left side surfaces and a back surface on an upper side of the work room; and a partition on a front upper side of the work room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi KANEKO, Takeshi MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 11872550
    Abstract: A safety cabinet includes a work space where work is performed; a front panel disposed in a front surface of the work space; and an air cleaner that cleans air to be supplied to the work space. An imaging device is disposed on one side surface side of side surfaces of the work space, and a connection opening is disposed on the other side surface side facing one side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20230415575
    Abstract: A display device displays a host vehicle and other vehicles running in driving lanes together with the driving lanes on an information display screen. When the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen, the display device displays marks showing that the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen at fixed positions of the driving lanes displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hironori ITO, Takeshi MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 11838460
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a microphone configured to acquire sound, a display device configured to display information, and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cause the display device to display a first screen at least including one setting item with a set value that can be changed by an instruction, cause the display device to display a second screen including a selection object for transition to the first screen, and acquire text data based on speech acquired through the microphone during display of the second screen and change the set value of the one setting item on the basis of the text data without causing the display device to display the first screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Takeshi Matsumura, Yuji Naya
  • Patent number: 11838459
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming device, a display capable of displaying information, a microphone capable of acquiring a sound, and one or more controllers configured to function as a unit of performing control so as to display, on the display, a screen including an operation object that indicates, by a pointing position, a parameter related to a setting in forming the image, a unit of acquiring, based on voice information representing one-phrase voice expression acquired via the microphone, first identification information corresponding to the operation object and second identification information corresponding to an updating process on the pointing position, and a unit of performing control, based on at least information regarding a current pointing position indicated by the operation object, the first identification information, and the second identification information, so as to display a screen including the operation object updated in terms of the pointing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Naya, Toru Takahashi, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11814049
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support device performs driving support of supporting a driver's driving of a host vehicle based on traffic information. The vehicle driving support device performs a first process of acquiring traffic information associated with traveling of the host vehicle as first traffic information from forward information of the host vehicle detected by a forward information detecting device, performs a second process of acquiring traffic information associated with traveling of the host vehicle out of traffic information stored in a database as second traffic information by comparing a current position of the host vehicle with map data stored in the database, and performs the driving support based on the first traffic information even when the second traffic information is acquired until a predetermined first condition is satisfied when the first traffic information has been acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohsuke Fujii, Naoki Nishimura, Toshihiro Nakatani, Hiroaki Ito, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11793901
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pass box with which not only surface sterilization by means of a germicidal lamp on an article delivered in the pass box but also isolation of different articles can be performed in a space-saving manner, the cleanliness in the pass box is maintained, and mutual contamination is prevented during article delivery in the pass box. Air is sent from a blower of an upper pass box to an upper space of the upper pass box through a filter, the air is supplied to a lower space of a lower pass box via the upper space, and an airflow circulation path is provided to return the air that has passed through the lower space to the upper blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11794580
    Abstract: A display device displays a host vehicle and other vehicles running in driving lanes together with the driving lanes on an information display screen. When the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen, the display device displays marks showing that the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen at fixed positions of the driving lanes displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11792338
    Abstract: An image forming system is configured to receive an input of natural language speech. Regardless of whether the natural language speech includes a combination of first words or second words, the image forming system can recognize the natural language speech as an instruction to select a specific print setting displayed on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yuji Naya, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11737077
    Abstract: A transmission device including a time-domain windowing processing circuit to which a transmission symbol is input and in which the transmission symbol is multiplied by a time window. As the time window, a result of pre-convolving an arbitrary filter into an arbitrary time window is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiichi Mizutani, Hiroshi Harada, Takeshi Matsumura, Yuji Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20230254421
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing system including: an image processing device; a microphone that is capable of acquiring speech; a retaining unit configured to retain, in a history database, setting values for image processing utilized in the past; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based at least on that a specific word has been recognized in a result of speech recognition on speech acquired by the microphone, one or more setting values from the history database using an extraction condition corresponding to the specific word, and a setting unit configured to set up a new job to be executed by the image processing device based on the one or more setting values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Toru Takahashi, Yuji Naya
  • Patent number: 11700106
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that flexibly switches execution/non-execution of FD. The communication apparatus includes the followings: a resource allocation unit that allocates, to another communication apparatus, reception radio resources in a predetermined frequency channel and allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a time axis; and a notification unit that notifies the other communication apparatus of information regarding the reception radio resources and the transmission radio resources. The resource allocation unit further allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroshi Harada, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Hiroto Kuriki
  • Patent number: 11685379
    Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to assess whether or not a lane change is necessary based on a scheduled route and surrounding environment information for a vehicle and select a traffic lane of the road, to produce a driving lane plan showing the scheduled driving lane, determine the notification priority representing the priority for notifying the driver of the planned lane change, based on at least one item from among the scheduled route, and the result of assessing whether or not the planned lane change is included in a plurality of continuous planned lane changes to be executed for a common purpose, when it has been planned to execute a lane change and suppress notification to the driver of planned lane changes with low notification priority compared to notification to the driver of planned lane changes with high notification priority, using a notification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Ryosuke Machida, Ryuta Hashimoto, Yuki Mori, Takamitsu Toyoura
  • Patent number: 11688185
    Abstract: A consciousness state determination system comprises a first image-taking section which is mounted on a vehicle and takes images of a driver of the vehicle, an electronic control unit which executes a consciousness state determination process of determining whether the driver is conscious, based on a first image corresponding to the image of the driver taken by the first image-taking section, and a mobile terminal carried by the driver. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether the driver is conscious, based on terminal-side information corresponding to information acquired by the mobile terminal when a predetermined condition that a reliability level of a determination result obtained from the consciousness state determination process is presumably low, becomes satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20230195020
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which communicates to and from an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet. The image forming apparatus includes: a motor; a first load; a second load; a drive transmission mechanism configured to selectively transmit drive of the motor to the first load and the second load; and a control unit configured to control the drive transmission mechanism to transmit the drive of the motor to the first load so that the first load is driven, and to control the drive transmission mechanism to transmit the drive of the motor to the second load so that the second load is driven. The information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to an error that has occurred in the image forming apparatus, the information including timing information related to a time when the error occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11665293
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing system including: an image processing device; a microphone that is capable of acquiring speech; a retaining unit configured to retain, in a history database, setting values for image processing utilized in the past; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based at least on that a specific word has been recognized in a result of speech recognition on speech acquired by the microphone, one or more setting values from the history database using an extraction condition corresponding to the specific word, and a setting unit configured to set up a new job to be executed by the image processing device based on the one or more setting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Toru Takahashi, Yuji Naya
  • Patent number: 11662294
    Abstract: Provided is a fan filter unit with which the performance of a HEPA filter can be measured at multiple points with ease and in a short time. The fan filter unit has a first HEPA filter, a second HEPA filter, and exhaust means installed between the first HEPA filter and the second HEPA filter. The first HEPA filter, the second HEPA filter, and the exhaust means are integrated by a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Hirotoshi Sato, Toshihiko Suwa, Makoto Yokoyama, Haruhiko Adachi, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11644780
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and system, and a method and a medium storing a program, furnish a server with non-time series data. The image forming apparatus obtains time series data of a predetermined type regarding the information processing apparatus, generates, based on the obtained time series data, the non-time series data, which is smaller in data size than the obtained time series data, and transmits the generated non-time series data directly or indirectly to the server. The server inputs the received non-time series data to a predetermined learning model, which outputs prediction information regarding the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Shinya Suzuki