Patents Assigned to The University of Electro-Communications
  • Publication number: 20250056169
    Abstract: A bone conduction hearing-aid system includes an intracorporeal unit that is embedded under a scalp and that includes an intracorporeal vibration generator configured to generate vibration by receiving a magnetic field frequency, and an extracorporeal unit that is disposed extracorporeally, that is configured to generate the magnetic field frequency and to apply the magnetic field frequency to the intracorporeal unit, and that is configured to generate vibration by an extracorporeal vibration generator. The vibration generated by the intracorporeal unit and the vibration generated by the extracorporeal unit vibrate a skull.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, EHIME UNIVERSITY, KEIO UNIVERSITY, NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuji KOIKE, Naohito HATO, Sho KANZAKI, Katsuyoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20250056171
    Abstract: A bone conduction hearing-aid unit embedded under a scalp. The bone conduction hearing-aid unit includes a vibration generator configured to generate vibration, and an anchor. A magnetic field frequency is applied to the vibration generator from the outside of the scalp to generate vibration. The vibration is transmitted to a skull via the anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: The University of Electro-Communications, Ehime University, KEIO UNIVERSITY, NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuji KOIKE, Naohito HATO, Sho KANZAKI, Katsuyoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20250056170
    Abstract: A bone conduction hearing-aid unit that is entirely embedded under a scalp. The bone conduction hearing-aid unit includes a vibration generating device configured to generate vibration, and an anchor fixed to a skull and configured to transmit the vibration to the skull. The vibration generating device is detachably fixed to the anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: The University of Electro-Communications, Ehime University, Keio University, Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji KOIKE, Naohito HATO, Sho KANZAKI, Katsuyoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240420505
    Abstract: Included are: an iris image acquisition unit that acquires an iris image including an iris of a living body; a calculation unit that calculates a scale factor for the iris image, from a size of an iris area included in the iris image and from a desired size; a generation unit that generates a resolution-converted image in which resolution of the iris image is converted in accordance with the scale factor; and a post-transform feature vector extraction unit that extracts a post-transform feature vector that is a feature vector of the resolution-converted image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Takahiro TOIZUMI, Masato TSUKADA, Yuka OGINO, Masatsugu ICHINO, Tsubasa BOURA
  • Publication number: 20240418634
    Abstract: An optical measurement device includes: a light source generating an optical frequency comb; a first optical path guiding an optical pulse train having a pulse interval based on the repetition frequency of the optical frequency comb and an inter-pulse phase difference based on a carrier envelope offset frequency and a repetition frequency to a measurement target; a second optical path guiding measurement result light acquired from the measurement target; a third optical path guiding delay light acquired by delaying the optical pulse train; an interference unit causing the measurement result light guided by the second optical path and the delay light guided by the third optical path to interfere with each other; and a control unit performing variable control of at least one of the carrier envelope offset frequency and the repetition frequency of the light source on the basis of the state of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: The University of Electro-Communications
    Inventors: Takashi KATO, Kaoru MINOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240393658
    Abstract: A wavefront control device includes: an optical frequency comb generating part configured to emit an optical frequency comb including a plurality of light pulses arranged in numerical order on a time axis; and a wavefront synthesizing part configured to distribute the plurality of light pulses of the optical frequency comb incident from the optical frequency comb generating part to different positions according to phases relative to the first light pulse on a surface crossing a traveling direction of the optical frequency comb and to generate a synthetic wavefront of the light pulses emitted from the different positions. The optical frequency comb generating part includes a phase controlling part configured to control a repetition frequency and an offset frequency of the optical frequency comb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: The University of Electro-Communications
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Kaoru Minoshima
  • Patent number: 12142079
    Abstract: A feature conversion learning device is configured to acquire a first image, reduce the first image to a second image having lower resolution than the first image, enlarge the second image to a third image having the same resolution as the first image, extract a first feature that is a feature of the first image and a second feature, convert the second feature into a third feature, and learn a feature conversion method based on a result of comparing the first feature with the third feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Masatsugu Ichino, Daisuke Uenoyama, Tsubasa Boura, Takahiro Toizumi, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino
  • Publication number: 20240270595
    Abstract: A method of producing a tin-based perovskite layer includes: preparing a first solution by dissolving a tin-based perovskite compound in a solvent that does not contain dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO); after the preparing of the first solution, mixing the DMSO with the first solution; and applying the first solution mixed with the DMSO to a base. The mixing is performed a predetermined time before the applying of the first solution mixed with the DMSO to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicants: CKD CORPORATION, The University of Electro-Communications, Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naohiko Noda, Masahiro Hayashi, Takatoshi Nomura, Shuzi Hayase, Daishiro Nomura, Daisuke Hirotani, Masaki Nakamura, Tomoyuki Hirami, Takayuki Kuga, Satoru Kani, Shinpei Sasahara
  • Patent number: 12049401
    Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fullerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro Tsukamoto, Takahide Oya, Taku Onishi
  • Patent number: 11827658
    Abstract: A Pb-free Sn-halide Perovskite solar cell with improved photoelectric conversion efficiency is provided. A solar cell uses a perovskite compound represented by ABX3 where A is a cation, B is a metal, and X is a halogen, wherein each of A, B and X may be composed of a plurality of elements, and B includes Sn and Ge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The University of Electro-Communications
    Inventors: Shuzi Hayase, Nozomi Ito
  • Publication number: 20230360440
    Abstract: A feature conversion learning device is configured to acquire a first image, reduce the first image to a second image having lower resolution than the first image, enlarge the second image to a third image having the same resolution as the first image, extract a first feature that is a feature of the first image and a second feature, convert the second feature into a third feature, and learn a feature conversion method based on a result of comparing the first feature with the third feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, The University of Electro-Communications
    Inventors: Masatsugu ICHINO, Daisuke UENOYAMA, Tsubasa BOURA, Takahiro TOIZUMI, Masato TSUKADA, Yuka OGINO
  • Patent number: 11807612
    Abstract: The aim is to provide a novel compound that can luminesce with high brightness and be used as a luminescent substrate in a firefly bioluminescence system. Provided is a heterocyclic compound, or salt thereof, represented by the following general formula (1): [R1, R2, and R3 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-4, with provisos that R1 and R2 are optionally bonded to form a ring and that one of R1 and R2 is optionally bonded to Y1 to form a ring; X is S, O, NR4, or CH2, and Y1 and Y2 are independently N or CR4, where each R4 is independently hydrogen, an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-4, an alkenyl group having a carbon number of 2-4, or an acyl group having a carbon number of 2-4; n is an integer of 0-4].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY & LIFE SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shojiro Maki, Nobuo Kitada, Ryohei Moriya, Hiroshi Aoyama, Ryosuke Ijuin
  • Patent number: 11787696
    Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fullerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro Tsukamoto, Takahide Oya, Taku Onishi
  • Patent number: 11761979
    Abstract: A psychological evaluation device that estimates interest of a subject in a content used integrally with a terminal held by the subject. Acceleration data obtained by an acceleration sensor built in the terminal is acquired, and a frequency analysis is performed on the acquired acceleration data to obtain acceleration in the gravity direction of the terminal. By obtaining the acceleration in the gravity direction of the terminal, it is possible to, for example, estimate the subject's interest in the content based on the integral value of each frequency component of the acceleration in the gravity direction obtained by performing the frequency analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, COAMIX INC.
    Inventors: Tota Mizuno, Naoaki Itakura, Chisato Amada, Nobuhiko Horie, Takeshi Hanada, Taiyo Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20230192635
    Abstract: The aim is to provide a novel compound that can luminesce with high brightness and be used as a luminescent substrate in a firefly bioluminescence system. Provided is a heterocyclic compound, or salt thereof, represented by the following general formula (1): [R1, R2, and R3 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-4, with provisos that R1 and R2 are optionally bonded to form a ring and that one of R1 and R2 is optionally bonded to Y1 to form a ring; X is S, O, NR4, or CH2, and Y1 and Y2 are independently N or CR4, where each R4 is independently hydrogen, an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-4, an alkenyl group having a carbon number of 2-4, or an acyl group having a carbon number of 2-4; n is an integer of 0-4].
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: The University of Electro-Communications, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY & LIFE SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shojiro MAKI, Nobuo KITADA, Ryohei MORIYA, Hiroshi AOYAMA, Ryosuke IJUIN
  • Patent number: 11516581
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first time-frequency converter configured to perform a time-frequency conversion with respect to an input signal, using a window function having a first width, a second time-frequency converter configured to perform a time-frequency conversion with respect to the input signal, using a second window function having a second width smaller than the first width, and a modification processing unit configured to modify an output of the second time-frequency converter, using a frequency analysis result based on an output of the first time-frequency converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Hibino Corporation
    Inventors: Kota Takahashi, Tsukasa Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Ono, Yoji Abe
  • Publication number: 20220363541
    Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fUllerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro TSUKAMOTO, Takahide OYA, Taku ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20220349915
    Abstract: A psychological evaluation device that estimates interest of a subject in a content used integrally with a terminal held by the subject. Acceleration data obtained by an acceleration sensor built in the terminal is acquired, and a frequency analysis is performed on the acquired acceleration data to obtain acceleration in the gravity direction of the terminal. By obtaining the acceleration in the gravity direction of the terminal, it is possible to, for example, estimate the subject's interest in the content based on the integral value of each frequency component of the acceleration in the gravity direction obtained by performing the frequency analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, COAMIX INC.
    Inventors: Tota MIZUNO, Naoaki ITAKURA, Chisato AMADA, Nobuhiko HORIE, Takeshi HANADA, Taiyo NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220342483
    Abstract: A conversion device includes: a unit attribute update unit that specifies a unit associated with a representative value approximating a feature vector for a biological signal, and updates a representative value and energy of the specified unit; a unit update unit that, when a plurality of feature vectors outside a predetermined range of a representative value of a unit of the unit data are acquired within a predetermined time, adds data for a new unit identifier to unit data; a class update unit that, when there is no class including a unit having energy within a predetermined range of energy of the new unit, adds data for a new class identifier to class data; and a motion update unit that updates motion data by associating, with an identifier of a class acquired after updating the class data, an identifier of a motion corresponding to the class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOKOI, Yuankang SHI, Shota TOGO, Yinlai JIANG, Yusuke YAMANOI
  • Patent number: 11479718
    Abstract: A method of the present disclosure for producing methylammonium lead halide perovskite quantum dots includes providing a Pb-oleic acid solution containing a Pb source that is soluble in oleic acid, oleic acid, and a non-polar solvent, providing a methylammonium-oleic acid solution containing methylammonium acetate and oleic acid, providing a reaction solution of tetrabutylammonium halide and oleylamine, and mixing the Pb-oleic acid solution, the methylammonium-oleic acid solution, and the reaction solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Qing Shen, Chao Ding, Yaohong Zhang, Feng Liu