Patents by Inventor Tsubasa Shirai

Tsubasa Shirai 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: 10612919
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a barometric pressure sensor detecting a barometric pressure; a GPS sensor receiving a positioning signal from a positioning satellite; a storage unit storing a position of a way point which is a candidate of a spot used by a user and an altitude of the way point; and a processing unit calculating an altitude by using the barometric pressure, the position calculated on the basis of the positioning signal, and the position of the way point and the altitude of the way point stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai
  • Patent number: 10401504
    Abstract: A running watch which is a wearable device includes a position detection unit (a GPS module), a sensor unit including at least one of an acceleration sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and an atmospheric pressure sensor, and a processing unit electrically connected to the position detection unit and the sensor unit. The processing unit determines a behavior state of a user based on signals from the position detection unit and the sensor unit and controls at least two of the position detection unit, the acceleration sensor, the geomagnetic sensor, and the atmospheric pressure sensor based on the behavior state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Sugiyama, Tsubasa Shirai
  • Patent number: 10390703
    Abstract: A system includes an acquisition section that acquires information from a sensor section attached to each player who is practicing an action in a target area, a processing section that generates area situation information on smoothness of movement of the players in the area based on the information from the sensor sections, and a display apparatus that notifies the area situation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto Chiba, Tsubasa Shirai
  • Publication number: 20180356534
    Abstract: A running watch which is a wearable device includes a position detection unit (a GPS module), a sensor unit including at least one of an acceleration sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and an atmospheric pressure sensor, and a processing unit electrically connected to the position detection unit and the sensor unit. The processing unit determines a behavior state of a user based on signals from the position detection unit and the sensor unit and controls at least two of the position detection unit, the acceleration sensor, the geomagnetic sensor, and the atmospheric pressure sensor based on the behavior state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko SUGIYAMA, Tsubasa SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20180160921
    Abstract: A physical ability evaluation system includes an output unit that outputs a plurality of indexes related to heart beat information of a user as information related to balance of a physical ability of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsubasa SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20180164110
    Abstract: A ranking system includes a selection section that selects a reference for ranking a plurality of routes, a ranking section that ranks the plurality of routes based on the selected reference, and an output section that outputs a result of the ranking or the ranked routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIRAI, Toshiyuki MISAWA
  • Publication number: 20180047194
    Abstract: An information output system includes a display section that displays at least one geographic route along which a physical activity has been performed by a user of the information output system; and a processor that performs control of displaying at least a part of the at least one geographic route with a visual expression corresponding to a type of the physical activity performed in the part, different visual expressions being used to indicate different types of physical activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIRAI, Tomoyuki KURATA
  • Publication number: 20180043212
    Abstract: A system that acquires physical condition information concerning a physical condition of a user before starting an activity and outputs, on the basis of the physical condition information, a recommended route, which is a route recommended for the user to run as the activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIRAI, Masao KURODA, Ayako FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170282040
    Abstract: A system includes an acquisition section that acquires information from a sensor section attached to each player who is practicing an action in a target area, a processing section that generates area situation information on smoothness of movement of the players in the area based on the information from the sensor sections, and a display apparatus that notifies the area situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto CHIBA, Tsubasa SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170259114
    Abstract: A performance monitoring device includes a storage section adapted to store information related to a location of a target on the move, a processing section adapted to update the information stored in the storage section, and a notification section adapted to make a notification of information related to a relative position between a user on the move and the target using the updated information related to the location of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu YAMADA, Tsubasa SHIRAI, Ayako FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170258407
    Abstract: A biological information processing device includes: an information acquisition unit which acquires body motion information of a subject from a body motion sensor; and a processing unit which specifies an activity intensity of the subject and an activity time corresponding to the activity intensity, based on the body motion information, and estimates biological information of the subject, based on the activity time corresponding to the activity intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIRAI, Hiroyuki ISOGAI
  • Publication number: 20170242405
    Abstract: An operation information providing apparatus that provides information regarding a repetitive operation which is synchronously performed by a first user and a second user, includes a processor that detects a deviation of a timing of an operation of the second user based on a timing of an operation of the first user by using an output of a first sensor detecting the operation of the first user and an output of a second sensor detecting the operation of the second user, and an output unit that outputs information indicating the positive or negative of the deviation of a case where the deviation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsubasa SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170205232
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a barometric pressure sensor detecting a barometric pressure; a GPS sensor receiving a positioning signal from a positioning satellite; a storage unit storing a position of a way point which is a candidate of a spot used by a user and an altitude of the way point; and a processing unit calculating an altitude by using the barometric pressure, the position calculated on the basis of the positioning signal, and the position of the way point and the altitude of the way point stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Tsubasa SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 9253751
    Abstract: In a baseband processing circuit unit, a reception signal type determination unit determines whether or not a reception signal in a GPS reception unit is an indirect wave. A movement speed calculation unit calculates a movement speed of the GPS reception unit using a correction coefficient of a relative speed determined in accordance with the determination of whether or not the reception signal is an indirect wave, a transmission frequency of a GPS satellite signal and a reception frequency in the GPS reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson, Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Shirai, Yoshitaka Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20150127285
    Abstract: A learning processing unit derives, using learning data in which a characteristic value based on a distribution coordinate of a detected acceleration by an acceleration sensor which configured to be worn on a body of a user is associated with a moving speed of the user, a moving speed relational expression for finding an estimated speed from the characteristic value. A moving speed estimation unit finds an estimated speed from a current characteristic value using the derived moving speed relational expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIRAI, Fumikazu SANO, Akifumi HAYASHI, Kazuhiko TSUCHIMOTO, Ryota HIRAKAWA, Hidekazu MAEZAWA
  • Patent number: 8775076
    Abstract: A position calculating method comprising: receiving a positioning signal; and performing a position calculating operation using the received positioning signal, the position calculating operation being a operation based on a given probability distribution model having at least a variation in previous operation result as a random variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai
  • Patent number: 8570214
    Abstract: There is provided a position calculating method including: calculating a pseudorange by receiving a satellite signal from a positioning satellite; and calculating a position using a normal mixture distribution model which expresses distribution of an error included in the pseudorange with normal mixture distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai
  • Patent number: 8514912
    Abstract: A search frequency correction method includes: obtaining correlation values by correlating between a received signal that is modulated by direct sequence spread spectrum modulation and a replica code of a spread code with respect to I and Q components at a predetermined search frequency, obtaining accumulated correlation values by accumulating the correlation values of each polarity inversion interval with respect to the I and Q components, calculating a plurality of combinations of the accumulated correlation values in both signs, selecting one of the combinations based on the calculation results of the respective combinations, and correcting the search frequency based on a time variation of an IQ phase represented by the accumulated correlation values of the one of the combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai
  • Patent number: 8358244
    Abstract: A multipath signal evaluation method includes, carrying out a correlation calculation on a received signal from a positioning satellite to obtain a peak correlation value, and determining reliability for a received multipath signal by using the peak correlation value and a correlation value at a phase delayed from a peak phase in which the peak correlation is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai
  • Publication number: 20120259543
    Abstract: A position calculating method comprising: receiving a positioning signal; and performing a position calculating operation using the received positioning signal, the position calculating operation being a operation based on a given probability distribution model having at least a variation in previous operation result as a random variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsubasa Shirai