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).
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Patent number: 11979562Abstract: 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 asType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
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Patent number: 11979597Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
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Patent number: 11973946Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge1Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Toru Kumakura
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Patent number: 11936849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CorporationInventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura, Hiroyuki Kurashige
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Patent number: 11917133Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Toru Kumakura, Hideki Takehara, Satoru Sakazume, Hiroyuki Kurashige
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Patent number: 11257611Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Takagi, Toru Fukushima, Hisaki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20210184096Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Toru FUKUSHIMA, Shinya Ryan YASUNAGA
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Publication number: 20180301249Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAGI, Toru FUKUSHIMA, Hisaki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9905011Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Kitago, Toru Fukushima
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Patent number: 9482541Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20160309023Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Norihisa HOTTA, Toru FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20160265923Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toru FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20160148387Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Masaki Kitago, Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20150320688Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Toru FUKUSHIMA, Takashi SHIMIZU, Teruko YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9119820Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Takashi Shimizu, Teruko Yoshida
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Patent number: 9089638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 18, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: JMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Kiyono, Takayuki Ohno, Takahide Nakanishi, Toru Fukushima, Eiji Sanada
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Patent number: 8000567Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20110105615Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: DAINIPPON SUMITOMO PHARMA CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Takashi Shimizu, Teruko Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100195962Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima
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Patent number: 7738747Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Miyokawa, Takashi Koseki, Toru Fukushima