Patents by Inventor Toru Fukushima

Toru Fukushima 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: 11979562
    Abstract: A picture coding device for coding a moving picture using inter prediction based on inter prediction information in units of blocks into which each picture of moving pictures is divided and forming a bitstream, the picture coding device includes a coding information storage unit configured to add the inter prediction information used in the inter prediction to a history-based motion vector predictor candidate list in a FIFO scheme, a history-based motion vector predictor candidate derivation unit configured to derive history-based motion vector predictor candidates from the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list and add the history-based motion vector predictor candidates to a motion vector predictor candidate list as a motion vector predictor candidate, and a history-based merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive history-based merging candidates from the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list and add the history-based merging candidates to a merging candidate list as
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11979597
    Abstract: A picture coding device includes a coding information storage unit configured to initialize to fill a history-based motion vector predictor candidate list with history-based candidates having at least predetermined motion vector and reference index, a motion vector predictor candidate derivation unit configured to derive a history-based candidate included in the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list as a motion vector predictor, a motion vector subtraction unit configured to calculate a motion vector difference by subtracting the derived motion vector predictor from a motion vector by which inter prediction is performed, wherein the coding information storage unit adds the motion vector to the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list as a history-based candidate and updates the history-based motion vector predictor candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11973946
    Abstract: Provided is a picture encoding device that divides a picture into blocks and performs encoding for each of the divided blocks. A primary signal block divider divides a primary signal of the picture into rectangles having a predetermined size, and generates a primary signal block. A secondary signal block divider divides a secondary signal of the picture into rectangles having a predetermined size, and generates a secondary signal block. A primary signal predictor predicts a primary signal, and a secondary signal predictor predicts a secondary signal. The secondary signal predictor can perform inter prediction of predicting a secondary signal from an encoded primary signal, and the inter prediction is restricted based on at least one of a size of the primary signal block and a size of the secondary signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge1
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Toru Kumakura
  • Patent number: 11936849
    Abstract: A picture coding device includes: a block vector candidate derivation unit that derives block vector candidates of a target block in a target picture from coding information stored in coding information storage memory; a selector that selects a selected block vector from the block vector candidates; and a reference position correction unit that performs a correction regarding a reference block to be referred to by the selected block vector so that a reference position of the reference block is to be corrected to refer to an inside of a referenceable region, in which a decoded sample in the target picture is acquired from decoded picture memory as a prediction value of the target block based on the reference position of the reference block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11917133
    Abstract: Technology for improving coding efficiency by performing a block split suitable for picture coding and decoding is provided. A moving-picture coding device for performing an affine transform in units of coding blocks includes an affine inheritance merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine inheritance merging candidate for inheriting an affine model of blocks neighboring a coding target block in a space domain, an affine construction merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine construction merging candidate from a plurality of motion information elements of blocks neighboring the coding target block in a space or time domain, and an affine fixation merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine fixation merging candidate in which motion information of an affine control point is fixed. A motion vector of each affine control point is fixed to (0, 0) in the affine fixation merging candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Toru Kumakura, Hideki Takehara, Satoru Sakazume, Hiroyuki Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11257611
    Abstract: A superconducting wire rod according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a superconducting wire rod having a flat cross-sectional shape which is characterized in that a voltage is generated with a lower current density or a higher voltage is generated with the same current density in a region on at least one end side in a wire rod width direction as compared with a region other than the region on the at least one end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takagi, Toru Fukushima, Hisaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210184096
    Abstract: A 2nd generation high temperature superconductor wire that prevents mechanical destruction from the wire edge due to slitting. A 2G HTS wire according to embodiments of the present invention has a structure that prevents mechanical destruction from the wire edge. This can be accomplished by forming a striation at or near the edge of the wire where the buffer and superconducting layers are removed to prevent any propagation of edge cracks from damaging the HTS wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Toru FUKUSHIMA, Shinya Ryan YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20180301249
    Abstract: A superconducting wire rod according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a superconducting wire rod having a flat cross-sectional shape which is characterized in that a voltage is generated with a lower current density or a higher voltage is generated with the same current density in a region on at least one end side in a wire rod width direction as compared with a region other than the region on the at least one end side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAGI, Toru FUKUSHIMA, Hisaki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9905011
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires distance information from image data includes an input unit 162 and a procedure selection unit 164. The input unit 162 inputs image data and information associated with the image data and specifying a procedure for deriving distance information. The procedure selection unit 164 selects at least one from a plurality of procedures on the basis of the information specifying a procedure for acquiring distance information and derives distance information from the image data using the selected procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kitago, Toru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9482541
    Abstract: A required time calculator calculates a virtual required time period when a first movable body is assumed to travel a second route different from a first route the first movable body actually travels and arrive at a second point. The required time calculator preferentially acquires position information from a second movable body having information indicating a movement characteristic similar to information indicating the movement characteristic of the first movable body from among one or more of second movable bodies. The required time calculator calculates the virtual required time period using the acquired position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20160309023
    Abstract: An incoming call notification control system includes a call sending /receiving unit that sends and receives a phone call to and from an operator within a mobile object, a learning unit configured to analyze a content of a past phone call of the operator with a caller via the call sending/receiving unit, determine an attribute of the caller relevant to an importance of phone calls between the operator and the caller, based on a result of the analysis, and store the determined attribute of the caller in a storage unit, and an incoming call notification controller configured to control execution or non-execution of incoming call notification to the operator, according to the attribute of the caller stored in the storage unit, and a situation in which the operator is placed, when the call sending/receiving unit receives a phone call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Norihisa HOTTA, Toru FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160265923
    Abstract: A required time calculator calculates a virtual required time period when a first movable body is assumed to travel a second route different from a first route the first movable body actually travels and arrive at a second point. The required time calculator preferentially acquires position information from a second movable body having information indicating a movement characteristic similar to information indicating the movement characteristic of the first movable body from among one or more of second movable bodies. The required time calculator calculates the virtual required time period using the acquired position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toru FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160148387
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires distance information from image data includes an input unit 162 and a procedure selection unit 164. The input unit 162 inputs image data and information associated with the image data and specifying a procedure for deriving distance information. The procedure selection unit 164 selects at least one from a plurality of procedures on the basis of the information specifying a procedure for acquiring distance information and derives distance information from the image data using the selected procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki Kitago, Toru Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20150320688
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient at a high content and a production method thereof. That is, the present invention provides a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient in not less than 25% of the total weight, having a disintegration time of within 40 seconds and an absolute hardness of 1.8 N/mm2 or more, which is obtained by granulating a powder containing an active ingredient with a binding solution containing mannitol and corn-derived pregelatinized starch, mixing the resulting granules with at least one kind of a disintegrant selected from cornstarch, hydroxypropylstarch, carmellose and crospovidone, and compression molding the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Toru FUKUSHIMA, Takashi SHIMIZU, Teruko YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9119820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient at a high content and a production method thereof. That is, the present invention provides a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient in not less than 25% of the total weight, having a disintegration time of within 40 seconds and an absolute hardness of 1.8 N/mm2 or more, which is obtained by granulating a powder containing an active ingredient with a binding solution containing mannitol and corn-derived pregelatinized starch, mixing the resulting granules with at least one kind of a disintegrant selected from cornstarch, hydroxypropylstarch, carmellose and crospovidone, and compression molding the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Takashi Shimizu, Teruko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9089638
    Abstract: A medical needle device includes a hub having an injection needle fixed at a top end thereof, and a substantially cylindrical sheath which is fit on the hub and having a pair of wings mounted on both sides thereof. The pair of wings are bent along the both sides of the sheath, overlapped and held together at a time of puncturing so that an inner peripheral surface of the sheath strongly presses an outer peripheral surface of the hub, thereby preventing movement of the hub caused by transfer of the hub relative to the sheath both in a rotational direction and a longitudinal direction. sheath has a plurality of protrusions provided on the inner peripheral surface thereof in a circumferential direction, the protrusions being spaced out from each other; and the outer peripheral surface of the hub abuts the protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: JMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kiyono, Takayuki Ohno, Takahide Nakanishi, Toru Fukushima, Eiji Sanada
  • Patent number: 8000567
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor module including a base having installed on an optical fiber and an optical semiconductor element, and a package which houses the base on a bottom thereof and has a first side wall with an optical section through which the optical fiber is led and a second side wall facing the first side wall, where the base is cut off to form a curved surface with respect to the bottom at a lower corner on a side of the base facing the second side wall of the housing, and a ratio of r/t is from 0.4 to 1.0, where t is a thickness of the base, and r is a curvature radius of the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20110105615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient at a high content and a production method thereof. That is, the present invention provides a tablet which is rapidly disintegrated in an oral cavity containing an active ingredient in not less than 25% of the total weight, having a disintegration time of within 40 seconds and an absolute hardness of 1.8 N/mm2 or more, which is obtained by granulating a powder containing an active ingredient with a binding solution containing mannitol and corn-derived pregelatinized starch, mixing the resulting granules with at least one kind of a disintegrant selected from cornstarch, hydroxypropylstarch, carmellose and crospovidone, and compression molding the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: DAINIPPON SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Takashi Shimizu, Teruko Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100195962
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor module including a base having installed on an optical fiber and an optical semiconductor element, and a package which houses the base on a bottom thereof and has a first side wall with an optical section through which the optical fiber is led and a second side wall facing the first side wall, where the base is cut off to form a curved surface with respect to the bottom at a lower corner on a side of the base facing the second side wall of the housing, and a ratio of r/t is from 0.4 to 1.0, where t is a thickness of the base, and r is a curvature radius of the curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 7738747
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor module including a base having installed on an optical fiber and an optical semiconductor element, and a package which houses the base on a bottom thereof and has a first side wall with an optical section through which the optical fiber is led and a second side wall facing the first side wall, where the base is cut off to form a curved surface with respect to the bottom at a lower corner on a side of the base facing the second side wall of the housing, and a ratio of r/t is from 0.4 to 1.0, where t is a thickness of the base, and r is a curvature radius of the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima