Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Yano
Tsuyoshi Yano 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: 11995873Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method each capable of reducing image quality deterioration. A connection component constituted by points that are included in a point group representing a three-dimensional structure, located adjacent to each other, and projected in an identical direction is projected on a two-dimensional plane in a plurality of directions to generate patches in the respective directions. A frame image where the generated patches in the respective directions are arranged is coded. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11991348Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method capable of suppressing a reduction in encoding efficiency of point cloud data. As for a point cloud representing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a point group, position information of a point to be processed is predicted on the basis of position information of a reference point, position information of a prediction point is generated, a difference between the generated position information of the prediction point and the position information of the point to be processed is derived, the derived difference is encoded, and a bitstream is generated. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program or the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Yano, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami
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Publication number: 20240129529Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and method capable of suppressing an increase in the amount of coding. A spraying attribute projection image, which is used for spraying for adding an attribute to a geometry in the reconstruction of 3D data in a three-dimensional space, is generated by projecting an attribute of 3D data representing an object in a three-dimensional shape onto a two-dimensional plane independently of the projection of the geometry of the 3D data onto the two-dimensional plane, and coding is performed on a frame image in which the spraying attribute projection image is disposed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an electronic device, an image processing method, or a program or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kao HAYASHI, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Tsuyoshi KATO, Koji YANO
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Publication number: 20240129555Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that enable decoding of encoded data of an octree in various processing orders. The octree corresponding to point cloud data is encoded after the context is initialized for each layer of the octree. Further, a breadth-first order or a depth-first order is selected as the decoding order for the encoded data of the octree corresponding to point cloud data, and the encoded data is decoded in the selected decoding order. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, a program, or the like, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: KOJI YANO, TSUYOSHI KATO, SATORU KUMA, OHJI NAKAGAMI
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Publication number: 20240120867Abstract: A motor control method for transferring an object to be transferred by a moving object that moves by driving of a motor in a substrate processing apparatus, includes: a data acquisition process of acquiring, at different times, pieces of drive data which relate to the driving of the motor and vary with heat generation of the motor; and a transfer process of transferring the object to be transferred by controlling current to be supplied to the motor, based on each of the pieces of drive data, to compensate for displacement of the object to be transferred from a target transfer position due to the heat generation of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Youichi MASAKI, Mitsuteru YANO, Eiichi SEKIMOTO, Tsuyoshi OTSUKA, Akihiro TERAMOTO, Teppei ITO, Koji TAKAYANAGI
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Patent number: 11948337Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can prevent a reduction in image quality. Geometry data that is a frame image having arranged thereon a projected image obtained by projecting 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional plane and includes a special value indicating occupancy map information in a range is generated. The generated geometry data is encoded. Further, the encoded data on the geometry data is decoded, and a depth value indicating a position of the 3D data and the occupancy map information are extracted from the decoded geometry data. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, or a program.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Patent number: 11943457Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an encoding device, a decoding device, an information processing method, and a program that facilitate scalable decoding of attribute information. Regarding the attribute information about a point cloud representing a three-dimensional object, a process of classifying the respective points of the point cloud into prediction points that are the points at which difference values between the attribute information and predicted values are left, and reference points that are the points at which the attribute information is referred to during derivation of the predicted values is recursively repeated on the reference points, so that the attribute information is hierarchized.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Koji Yano
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Patent number: 11922579Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of suppressing an increase in loads when a point cloud is generated from a mesh. Point cloud data is generated by positioning points at intersection points between a surface of a mesh and vectors each including, as a start origin, position coordinates corresponding to a specified resolution. For example, intersection determination is performed between the surface of the mesh and each of the vectors, and in a case where the surface and the vector are determined to intersect each other, the coordinates of the intersection point are calculated. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an image processing method, a program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Satoru Kuma, Tsuyoshi Kato, Hiroyuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 11917201Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information generation method that enable suppression of deterioration in subjective quality of a point cloud. There is generated an occupancyMap indicating, for each local area of a frame image, presence or absence of a projection image of a point cloud on a two-dimensional plane in accordance with a positional relationship of points in a three-dimensional space, while the point cloud represents an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of the points. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an encoding device, a decoding device, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Tsuyoshi Kato, Koji Yano
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Patent number: 11915390Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a method capable of suppressing lowering of image quality. Correction information that is information regarding correction of 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure constructed using 2D data representing a two-dimensional image is generated, and the generated correction information is coded. Furthermore, coded data of correction information that is information regarding correction of 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure constructed using 2D data representing a two-dimensional image is decoded, and 3D data is constructed using the 2D data and correction information generated by decoding coded data of the correction information. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Patent number: 9537150Abstract: To provide an electrode for secondary battery, electrode which can materialize secondary batteries that are adapted into producing high output and additionally whose durability is high. It is characterized in possessing an electrode material that has an active-material powder 11, a conductive material 12 being formed of a carbonaceous material, and being adhered to a surface of said active-material powder 11, and fibrous conductive materials 13 being bonded to said conductive material 12. First of all, it becomes feasible to maintain the electric connection between the active-material powder and the conductive material stably by adhering the conductive material to a surface of the active-material powder. Further, the fibrous conductive materials are bonded to the conductive material that is adhered to a surface of the active-material powder. It is feasible to maintain the electric connection by getting the fibrous conductive materials entangled to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, SEI CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Yano, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Shinji Saito, Takehiko Sawai
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Patent number: 9070906Abstract: A battery assembling apparatus is disclosed. The battery assembling apparatus comprises: first and second rotary tables arranged to face each other at points on respective outer circumferences and rotate in forward directions relative to each other; a battery holding part provided on the outer circumference of the first rotary table to hold a battery; a frame holding part provided on the outer circumference of the second rotary table to hold a frame; a battery supplying part for supplying batteries to the battery holding part at a position different from a facing position between the first and second rotary tables; a frame supplying part for supplying frames to the frame holding part at a position different from the facing position; and a discharging part for taking out an assembly of a battery and a frame assembled together from the facing position.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutoshi Syuto, Tsuyoshi Yano, Koji Tamaru, Yuta Nemoto, Shogo Shibai, Hirokuni Sasaki, Shigeki Ishii
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Patent number: 8742725Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery system which can accurately detect a state of a secondary battery system (such as a secondary battery state and a secondary battery system failure). The secondary battery system (6) includes dV/dQ calculation means which calculates a dV/dQ value as a ratio of a change amount dV of a battery voltage V of a secondary battery (100) against a change amount dQ of an accumulation amount Q when the accumulation amount Q of the secondary battery (100) is changed. The secondary battery system (6) detects the state of the secondary battery system (6) by using the dV/dQ value.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Tsujiko, Tomitaro Hara, Takuichi Arai, Tsuyoshi Yano, Daisuke Teramoto, Keiko Wasada, Sachie Yuasa
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Publication number: 20140096374Abstract: A battery assembling apparatus of one aspect of the invention comprises: first and second rotary tables arranged to face each other at points on respective outer circumferences and rotate in forward directions relative to each other; a battery holding part provided on the outer circumference of the first rotary table to hold a battery; a frame holding part provided on the outer circumference of the second rotary table to hold a frame; a battery supplying part for supplying batteries to the battery holding part at a position different from a facing position between the first and second rotary tables; a frame supplying part for supplying frames to the frame holding part at a position different from the facing position; and a discharging part for taking out an assembly of a battery and a frame assembled together from the facing position, the first and second rotary tables being rotated with a rotation speed ratio and in a phase relationship such that the battery holding part and the frame holding part face eachType: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: April 10, 2014Inventors: Kazutoshi Syuto, Tsuyoshi Yano, Koji Tamaru, Yuta Nemoto, Shogo Shibai, Hirokuni Sasaki, Shigeki Ishii
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Patent number: 8384345Abstract: A control method for a lithium ion secondary battery includes performing a charging step of charging the lithium ion secondary battery with a predetermined quantity of electricity when the battery voltage of the lithium ion secondary battery has decreased to a lower limit battery voltage that is set at a value that falls within a range higher than (B?C) V and lower than or equal to (B?C+0.2) V where a maximum value of a positive electrode potential of a flat portion in a discharge positive electrode potential curve is B (V) and a negative electrode dissolution potential is C (V). It is possible to suppress a dissolution of a negative electrode current collector of the lithium ion secondary battery to prevent the service life of the lithium ion secondary battery from shortening because of an internal short circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomitaro Hara, Akira Tsujiko, Takuichi Arai, Tsuyoshi Yano, Daisuke Teramoto, Sachie Yuasa, Keiko Wasada
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Publication number: 20120105006Abstract: A control method for a lithium ion secondary battery includes performing a charging step of charging the lithium ion secondary battery with a predetermined quantity of electricity when the battery voltage of the lithium ion secondary battery has decreased to a lower limit battery voltage that is set at a value that falls within a range higher than (B?C) V and lower than or equal to (B?C+0.2) V where a maximum value of a positive electrode potential of a flat portion in a discharge positive electrode potential curve is B (V) and a negative electrode dissolution potential is C (V). It is possible to suppress a dissolution of a negative electrode current collector of the lithium ion secondary battery to prevent the service life of the lithium ion secondary battery from shortening because of an internal short circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2009Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Tomitaro Hara, Akira Tsujiko, Takuichi Arai, Tsuyoshi Yano, Daisuke Teramoto, Sachie Yuasa, Keiko Wasada
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Patent number: 8071232Abstract: To provide a hybrid fuel cell system for improving converter efficiency. In a hybrid fuel cell system (1) in which a fuel cell (22) and an electricity storage device (21) are connected via a voltage converter (20), the voltage converter (20) has a plurality of phases (P1, P2, P3), and the number of phases of operation can be changed in accordance with the power passing through the voltage converter (20). As the number of phases can be changed in accordance with the power passing through the voltage converter (20), it is possible to select the number of phases that give a higher efficiency voltage conversion in accordance with the passing power, and the efficiency of the voltage converter (20) can be greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Yano, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7928688Abstract: A vehicle comprises a battery, i.e. a power storage unit having a capacity different from a reference capacity, a current sensor for detecting a current inputted to the power storage unit or outputted therefrom and delivering the detection value by converting it depending on the ratio of the capacity of the power storage unit to the reference capacity, and a controller performing current integration by receiving the output from the current detecting section and judging charged state of the power storage unit. The current sensor preferably comprises a sensor for measuring a current flowing through wiring connected with the power storage unit, and a converting section for converting the sensor output depending on the ratio of the capacity of the power storage unit to the reference capacity. When the capacity of the power storage unit is equal to n times of the reference capacity, the converting section delivers the sensor output while multiplying by 1/n.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Nakamura, Hichirosai Oyobe, Tsuyoshi Yano
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Publication number: 20110012604Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery system which can accurately detect a state of a secondary battery system (such as a secondary battery state and a secondary battery system failure). The secondary battery system (6) includes dV/dQ calculation means which calculates a dV/dQ value as a ratio of a change amount dV of a battery voltage V of a secondary battery (100) against a change amount dQ of an accumulation amount Q when the accumulation amount Q of the secondary battery (100) is changed. The secondary battery system (6) detects the state of the secondary battery system (6) by using the dV/dQ value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Akira Tsujiko, Tomitaro Hara, Takuichi Arai, Tsuyoshi Yano, Daisuke Teramoto, Keiko Wasada, Sachie Yuasa
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Patent number: 7839013Abstract: A power supply device for a vehicle includes a battery (B1) which serves as a first power storage device, a battery (B2) which serves as a second power storage device, a vehicle load, a selection switch (RY0) which selects one of the first and second power storage devices and connects the selected power storage device to the vehicle load, and a control device (60) which, when a current flowing through the selection switch (RY0) is larger than a prescribed value, controls the vehicle load so that the current flowing through the selection switch (RY0) is made smaller than the prescribed value, and switches the selection switch. Preferably, when the control device (60) switches the selection switch (RY0), the control device controls inverters (20, 30) to achieve a balance between electric power generated in a first motor generator (MG2) and electric power consumed in a second motor generator (MG1).Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Nakamura, Hichirosai Oyobe, Tsuyoshi Yano