Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Endo

Yasuhiro Endo 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).

  • Publication number: 20240129686
    Abstract: A display control apparatus for controlling display of a display device that a user can wear acquires speech collected by a plurality of microphones, estimates a sound-arrival direction of the acquired speech, and generates a text image corresponding to the acquired speech. The display control apparatus determines an adjustment amount of a display position of the text image on the display unit of the display device based on a detection result of at least one of an operation by the user and a state of the display device. Then, the display control apparatus displays the generated text image at a display position in the display unit, the display position being determined in accordance with the estimated sound-arrival direction and the determined adjustment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc., Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi TABATA, Haruki NISHIMURA, Akira ENDO, Yasuhiro HABARA, Masaki GOMI, Yudai TAIRA
  • Publication number: 20240119684
    Abstract: A display control apparatus for controlling display of a display device acquires speech collected by a plurality of microphones and estimates a sound-arrival direction of the acquired speech. Then, the display control apparatus causes a text image corresponding to the acquired speech to be displayed in a predetermined text display area in a display unit of the display device, and causes a symbol image associated with the text image to be displayed at a display position in the display unit, the display position corresponding to the estimated sound-arrival direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc., Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi TABATA, Haruki NISHIMURA, Akira ENDO, Yasuhiro HABARA, Masaki GOMI, Yudai TAIRA
  • Patent number: 11952675
    Abstract: Provided is a surface-treated copper foil in which in order to avoid failures of electronic parts by corrosion, a high bond strength between an electrolytic copper foil and a resin base material can be maintained even when the surface-treated copper foil is exposed to corrosive gases and microparticles, and a method for manufacturing the same. The surface-treated copper foil of the present invention comprises an electrolytic copper foil, a roughened layer covering at least one surface side of the electrolytic copper foil, and a rust preventive layer further covering the roughened layer, wherein the rust preventive layer is at least one surface of the surface-treated copper foil; the rust preventive layer comprises at least a nickel layer; and the thickness of the nickel layer is 0.8 to 4.4 g/m2 in terms of mass per unit area of nickel; and the noncontact roughness Spd of the rust preventive layer is 1.4 to 2.6 peaks/?m2 and the surface roughness RzJIS of the rust preventive layer is 1.0 to 2.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON DENKAI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Endo
  • Patent number: 11946764
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a map information acquisition unit that acquires map data around a vehicle; and an item display unit that overlaps a virtual item on a predetermined travel road on the map data and that displays the virtual item in a display area in a vehicle cabin. The item display unit overlaps and displays the virtual item on the map data, thereby guiding a driver of the vehicle toward the travel road on which the virtual item is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11941921
    Abstract: A maintenance information management device includes an information registration unit configured to register vehicle identification information and maintenance information in a memory for each vehicle, an information update unit configured to update the maintenance information after the maintenance of the vehicle by adding maintenance contents to the maintenance information registered in the memory, and an information providing unit configured to provide the maintenance information when a provision request for the maintenance information is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240084753
    Abstract: A control device and method controls a vehicle having an internal combustion engine connected to an automatic transmission via a torque converter with a lockup device. The torque of the internal combustion engine is limited the by a torque limit value based on a speed difference between an input rotational speed and an output rotational speed of the torque converter during acceleration in a non-lockup state. The torque-limiting of the internal combustion engine is prohibited torque-limiting upon a prescribed condition being met. The prescribed condition is met by a heating request, during hill climbing/towing, during travel at high vehicle speeds, when the accelerator pedal opening angle exceeds or is equal to a prescribed opening angle, when the torque limit value is greater than a target torque, in a range other than a D range, or in a mode other than normal mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIYAMA, Daigo KISHI, Tatsuo NAKANO, Seiichirou TAKAHASHI, Koji SAITO, Yukiyoshi INUTA, Takao ARIMATSU, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11765283
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an image forming instruction issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data and processing information to a server, the processing information including access information regarding access to the information processing apparatus and information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to transmission of the image data being requested from the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20230291212
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a forcible disconnecting unit configured to forcibly disconnect a battery in a battery module from series regardless of a gate drive signal. The power supply system obtains the number of batteries included in the battery modules which can be forcibly disconnected from the series according to the maximum voltage of the batteries that can be connected in the series and a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be output, and forcibly disconnects the obtained number of the batteries from the series by the forcible disconnecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya MIZUNO, Shuji TOMURA, Naoki YANAGIZAWA, Kazuo OOTSUKA, Hiroshi TSUKADA, Junta IZUMI, Masakazu HABU, Kenji KIMURA, Hironori MIKI, Yasuhiro ENDO, Takayuki BAN
  • Publication number: 20230291848
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an image forming instruction issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data and processing information to a server, the processing information including access information regarding access to the information processing apparatus and information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; when there is a change in the access information, acquire the changed access information and transmits the acquired changed access information to the server; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to a request from the image forming apparatus for transmission of the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230043755
    Abstract: Provided is a surface-treated copper foil in which in order to avoid failures of electronic parts by corrosion, a high bond strength between an electrolytic copper foil and a resin base material can be maintained even when the surface-treated copper foil is exposed to corrosive gases and microparticles, and a method for manufacturing the same. The surface-treated copper foil of the present invention comprises an electrolytic copper foil, a roughened layer covering at least one surface side of the electrolytic copper foil, and a rust preventive layer further covering the roughened layer, wherein the rust preventive layer is at least one surface of the surface-treated copper foil; the rust preventive layer comprises at least a nickel layer; and the thickness of the nickel layer is 0.8 to 4.4 g/m2 in terms of mass per unit area of nickel; and the noncontact roughness Spd of the rust preventive layer is 1.4 to 2.6 peaks/?m2 and the surface roughness RzJIS of the rust preventive layer is 1.0 to 2.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Toshio KAWASAKI, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220182500
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an image forming instruction issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data and processing information to a server, the processing information including access information regarding access to the information processing apparatus and information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to transmission of the image data being requested from the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220112618
    Abstract: An electrolytic copper foil having higher electrical conductivity, and a method for producing the same are provided. The electrolytic copper foil according the present invention has a carbon content of 5 ppm or less, a sulfur content of 3 ppm or less, an oxygen content of 5 ppm or less, and a nitrogen content of 0.5 ppm or less; has a total content of carbon, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen of 15 ppm or less; and has a number of grains of 8.0 to 12.0/?m2, the number of grains changing to 0.6 to 1.0/?m2 by heating the electrolytic copper foil at 150° C. for 1 hour. A method for producing this electrolytic copper foil includes cleaning a copper raw material; dissolving the copper raw material after the cleaning to obtain an electrolytic solution having a total organic carbon (TOC) of 10 ppm or less; and electrolyzing the electrolytic solution to obtain the electrolytic copper foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Toshio KAWASAKI, Tsuyoshi ONUMA, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Patent number: 11149845
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission (2) has a torque convertor (3) having a lock-up clutch (30) and a continuously variable transmission mechanism (5). A control unit (10) has a shift control unit (10C) configured to be able to perform a pseudo stepwise up-shift control that varies a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission mechanism (5) stepwise, a lock-up control unit (10A) configured to control an engagement state of the lock-up clutch (30), and a torque control command unit (10D) configured to perform a torque-down control of a driving source (1). When the engagement control of the lock-up clutch (30) and the pseudo stepwise up-shift control are performed at the same time, the torque control command unit (10D) configured to perform the torque-down control with a greater torque reduction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Akihiro Tanabe, Takahiro Yamada, Shohei Imaji, Masayuki Mannen
  • Patent number: 11086435
    Abstract: A drive control device being configured to provide a signal to an electronic device, the electronic device including a top panel having an operation surface, and a position detection circuit configured to detect a position of an operational input performed on the operation surface, and a vibrating element configured to generate vibration in the operation surface, the drive control device comprising: processor circuitry configured to execute a drive control processing that includes driving the vibrating element of the electronic device with a drive signal, the drive signal being configured to cause the vibrating element to generate natural vibration in the operation surface and being obtained by modulating a waveform signal of a first frequency in an ultrasonic band with a modulation signal of a second frequency having a difference from the first frequency, the difference being able to be sensed by a tactile receptor of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Taninaka, Akinori Miyamoto, Sachihiro Youoku, Yuichi Kamata, Yasuhiro Endo
  • Patent number: 11077852
    Abstract: A shift control device for a vehicle includes: an engine; a shift mechanism disposed between the engine and driving wheels; a shift control section configured to control a transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism; and a fuel cut control section configured to stop a fuel supply to the engine, at least when an accelerator pedal is in a release state, and when an engine speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined rotation speed, the shift control section being configured to perform a minimum rotation speed restriction control to control the transmission gear ratio of the shift mechanism so that the minimum rotation speed of the engine is equal to or greater than the predetermined rotation speed regardless of a vehicle front condition and an accelerator operation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Araki, Tomoaki Honma, Yasuhiro Endo, Hiroshi Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 11003250
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a top panel configured to have an operation surface; a detection circuit configured to detect a position of an operation input on the operation surface; a vibrating circuit configured to be attached to the top panel to generate vibration on the operation surface; a control circuit configured to drive the vibrating circuit by a driving signal for generating natural vibration of an ultrasonic wave band on the operation surface, in which the driving of the vibrating circuit is performed such that an intensity of the natural vibration changes in accordance with the position of the operation input to the operation surface and a temporal change degree of the position; and a damping member configured to abut against a position that corresponds to a node of a standing wave generated by the natural vibration on a surface opposite to the operation surface of the top panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Taninaka, Yuichi Kamata, Yasuhiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10963058
    Abstract: A drive controller includes a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse width modulation signal by modifying a period of at least one cycle of a plurality of cycles of the pulse width modulation signal for synchronizing the plurality of cycles of the pulse width modulation signal with one cycle of a drive signal, and a drive circuit configured to generate the drive signal based on the pulse width modulation signal generated by the pulse generator, and drive a vibration element coupled to a panel of an electronic device on a basis of the generated drive signal for generating vibration in an ultrasonic band on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Taninaka, Yuichi Kamata, Sachihiro Youoku, yasuhiro endo
  • Publication number: 20210082572
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an association unit and an output control unit. The association unit associates a scheduled operation described in an operation-plan document with a scheduled operation of the same. The operation-plan document is an electronic document describing one or more scheduled operations that are to be performed during a predetermined period. The document describes one or more scheduled operations that are extracted to be performed during a period shorter than the predetermined period and one or more handwritten operation records each of which corresponds to scheduled operations described in the document. The output control unit performs control to output a scheduled operation that is associated with the scheduled operation by the association unit and an operation record that relates to the scheduled operation. The scheduled operation described in the document and the operation record are read and converted to an electronic form by an image reading apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KAKOI, Yasuhiro ENDO, Toshio FUJI
  • Publication number: 20210062914
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission (2) has a torque convertor (3) having a lock-up clutch (30) and a continuously variable transmission mechanism (5). A control unit (10) has a shift control unit (10C) configured to be able to perform a pseudo stepwise up-shift control that varies a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission mechanism (5) stepwise, a lock-up control unit (10A) configured to control an engagement state of the lock-up clutch (30), and a torque control command unit (10D) configured to perform a torque-down control of a driving source (1). When the engagement control of the lock-up clutch (30) and the pseudo stepwise up-shift control are performed at the same time, the torque control command unit (10D) configured to perform the torque-down control with a greater torque reduction mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ENDO, Akihiro TANABE, Takahiro YAMADA, Shohei IMAJI, Masayuki MANNEN
  • Patent number: 10659632
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a detection unit that detects an operation position of a user on the display, and a controller that displays an entire menu corresponding to the detected operation position at a position corresponding to the operation position, and displays a balloon indicating the operation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Endo