Patents by Inventor Akihiro Mukai

Akihiro Mukai 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: 20240290825
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a barrier layer having an upper surface with a nitrogen polarity, a channel layer having an upper surface with a nitrogen polarity, provided on the barrier layer, a silicon nitride film provided on the channel layer, a dielectric film provided on the silicon nitride film, and a gate electrode provided on the dielectric film. A relative dielectric constant of the dielectric film is higher than a relative dielectric constant of the silicon nitride film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Akira MUKAI, Masaya OKADA, Isao MAKABE, Akihiro HAYASAKA
  • Publication number: 20240106557
    Abstract: An optical transmission device configured to: receive an input of signal interruption information from a second optical transmission device that detects a signal interruption of signal light on a transmission path, and to receive an input of ASE light after the signal interruption, has a wavelength selective switch configured to drop and/or add signal light; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: switch, based on the input of the signal interruption information from the second optical transmission device, control of output of the wavelength selective switch from a constant level control of the output, to a constant level control of attenuation for holding an amount of the attenuation of the signal light constant; and return the constant level control of the attenuation to the constant level control of the output, after the input of the ASE light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro MUKAI, Yoshito Kachita, David Dal Farra
  • Patent number: 11080882
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technology capable of more enjoyably managing a target object. [Solution] Provided is a display control device including a display control unit configured to perform control such that an image corresponding to state information of a target object located in a field of view of a user is displayed at a position having a predetermined positional relation with a position of the target object and an output control unit configured to control output of comment information of the target object corresponding to the state information of the target object and feature information of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Tomoya Onuma, Mari Saito, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Shogo Kawata, Chisako Kajihara, Akihiro Mukai
  • Patent number: 10923083
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technology of enabling a user to easily comprehend one target object whose AR information is presented to the user. [Solution] Provided is a display control device, including: a display control unit configured to control display of information related to a target object located in a field of view of a user, in which, in a case in which it is determined that at least a part of the target object is shielded by another object on the basis of a position of the user, the display control unit controls display of an image related to the target object such that the target object shielded in the field of view is displayed in a form different from a form visually recognized by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Masakazu Yajima, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Chisako Kajihara, Akihiro Mukai
  • Publication number: 20200090627
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technology of enabling a user to easily comprehend one target object whose AR information is presented to the user. [Solution] Provided is a display control device, including: a display control unit configured to control display of information related to a target object located in a field of view of a user, in which, in a case in which it is determined that at least a part of the target object is shielded by another object on the basis of a position of the user, the display control unit controls display of an image related to the target object such that the target object shielded in the field of view is displayed in a form different from a form visually recognized by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Masakazu Yajima, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Chisako Kajihara, Akihiro Mukai
  • Publication number: 20200060240
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technique capable of managing target objects more easily. [Solution] There is provided a display control device, including: a display control unit configured to perform control such that an image corresponding to a state of a management target object located in a field of view of a user is displayed at a position having a predetermined positional relation with a position of the management target object. In a case in which the image is selected, the display control unit controls guidance display of guiding the user to visually recognize a confirmation part corresponding to the state in the management target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: MASAKAZU YAJIMA, SHOGO KAWATA, MARI SAITO, YOSHIYASU KUBOTA, TOMOYA ONUMA, CHISAKO KAJIHARA, AKIHIRO MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20200058271
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technique capable of providing more useful information to a user in a case in which there is a target object group in a real world. [Solution] Provided is a display control device, including: a display control unit configured to be capable of controlling display of information related to a first target object which is a group management target and information for managing a target object group including the first target object, in which the display control unit controls a display parameter of each of the information related to the first target object and the information for managing the target object group in accordance with a distance between a user and a second target object included in the target object group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu KUBOTA, Masakazu YAJIMA, Mari SAITO, Akihiro MUKAI, Chisako KAJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190385332
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technology capable of more enjoyably managing a target object. [Solution] Provided is a display control device including a display control unit configured to perform control such that an image corresponding to state information of a target object located in a field of view of a user is displayed at a position having a predetermined positional relation with a position of the target object and an output control unit configured to control output of comment information of the target object corresponding to the state information of the target object and feature information of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Tomoya Onuma, Mari Saito, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Shogo Kawata, Chisako Kajihara, Akihiro Mukai
  • Patent number: 9800331
    Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a wavelength selecting switch, including an input port and an output port having more ports than the input port, configured to perform an adjustment of a level of an optical signal from the input port to the output port; a first monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the input port unit; a second monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the output port unit; and a controller configured to control the wavelength selecting switch wherein the controller: calculates a virtual output value for the output port unit based on a first monitor result from the first monitoring unit, a second monitor result from the second monitoring unit, and a current adjustment value for the adjustment function; calculates a new adjustment value based on the virtual output value; and sets the new adjustment value to the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Toyota, Akihiro Mukai, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuo Nagayoshi, Haruki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9721585
    Abstract: A processing buffer unit stores an audio signal. A pitch calculation unit and a pitch cycle correction unit calculate a multiple of N as the number of samples in a pitch cycle of the audio signal, in which N is an integer equal to or more than 1. A processing control unit and a start-position movement amount correction unit sequentially determine, as a sample in a start position of a compression process in a time axis domain of the audio signal, a (multiple of N)-th sample from a start position immediately before the start position. An operation unit compresses samples in a predetermined number times the pitch cycle from the sample in the start position in a time axis domain, and sets the number of samples after the compression to be the multiple of N. The present technology, for example, may be applied to an audio signal processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Akihiro Mukai
  • Publication number: 20160315700
    Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a wavelength selecting switch, including an input port and an output port having more ports than the input port, configured to perform an adjustment of a level of an optical signal from the input port to the output port; a first monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the input port unit; a second monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the output port unit; and a controller configured to control the wavelength selecting switch wherein the controller: calculates a virtual output value for the output port unit based on a first monitor result from the first monitoring unit, a second monitor result from the second monitoring unit, and a current adjustment value for the adjustment function; calculates a new adjustment value based on the virtual output value; and sets the new adjustment value to the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Toyota, Akihiro Mukai, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuo Nagayoshi, Haruki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9332326
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of light beams and wavelength allocation information of optical signals included in each of the light beams; a demultiplexing unit configured to demultiplex the plurality of light beams received; a plurality of switches configured to switch between transmitting or blocking with respect to the demultiplexed plurality of light beams; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex light beams transmitted from the plurality of switches; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an intensity of the multiplexed light beams; and a controller configured to, based on the wavelength allocation information, obtain a combination of the light beams not including the optical signals having overlapping wavelengths, and control the plurality of switches in accordance with the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Mukai, Takaaki Itose, Hiroki Takaki, Ichiro Nakajima, Yoshinobu Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 9159334
    Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice pitch converting unit that performs a voice pitch converting process with respect to an input voice signal and converts voice pitch of the input voice signal, an error detecting unit that detects an error between the number of samples of an output voice signal, which is expected, and the number of samples of the output voice signal, which is actually output, and a time length control unit that controls adjustment of the time length in such a manner that the time length of the output voice signal is corrected by the amount of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Mukai, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150063798
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of light beams and wavelength allocation information of optical signals included in each of the light beams; a demultiplexing unit configured to demultiplex the plurality of light beams received; a plurality of switches configured to switch between transmitting or blocking with respect to the demultiplexed plurality of light beams; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex light beams transmitted from the plurality of switches; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an intensity of the multiplexed light beams; and a controller configured to, based on the wavelength allocation information, obtain a combination of the light beams not including the optical signals having overlapping wavelengths, and control the plurality of switches in accordance with the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Mukai, Takaaki Itose, Hiroki Takaki, Ichiro Nakajima, Yoshinobu Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20120310653
    Abstract: A processing buffer unit stores an audio signal. A pitch calculation unit and a pitch cycle correction unit calculate a multiple of N as the number of samples in a pitch cycle of the audio signal, in which N is an integer equal to or more than 1. A processing control unit and a start-position movement amount correction unit sequentially determine, as a sample in a start position of a compression process in a time axis domain of the audio signal, a (multiple of N)-th sample from a start position immediately before the start position. An operation unit compresses samples in a predetermined number times the pitch cycle from the sample in the start position in a time axis domain, and sets the number of samples after the compression to be the multiple of N. The present technology, for example, may be applied to an audio signal processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Akira INOUE, Akihiro MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20120239384
    Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice pitch converting unit that performs a voice pitch converting process with respect to an input voice signal and converts voice pitch of the input voice signal, an error detecting unit that detects an error between the number of samples of an output voice signal, which is expected, and the number of samples of the output voice signal, which is actually output, and a time length control unit that controls adjustment of the time length in such a manner that the time length of the output voice signal is corrected by the amount of the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Akihiro MUKAI, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100255295
    Abstract: A resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate having an OH terminal group content of 0.1 to 30 eq/ton (component A) and 0.01 to 0.3 part by weight of a glycerin monoester (component B) and having a chlorine atom content of 100 ppm or less. The resin composition provides a molded article having excellent heat stability and a good color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Tomomitsu Onizawa, Naoshi Takahashi, Akihiro Mukai
  • Patent number: 7214868
    Abstract: A highlight portion is detected to a high accuracy from acoustic signals in say an event, and an index is added to the highlight portion. In an acoustic signal processing apparatus 10, a candidate domain extraction unit 13 retains a domain, a length of which with short-term amplitudes as calculated by an amplitude calculating unit 11 not being less than an amplitude threshold value is not less than a time threshold value, as a candidate domain. A feature extraction unit 14 extracts sound quality featuring quantities, relevant to the sound quality, from the acoustic signals, to quantify the sound quality peculiar to a climax. A candidate domain evaluating unit 15 calculates a score value, indicating the degree of the climax, using featuring quantities relevant to the amplitude or the sound quality for each candidate domain, in order to detect a true highlight domain, based on the so calculated score value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mototsugu Abe, Akihiro Mukai, Masayuki Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20040200337
    Abstract: A highlight portion is detected to a high accuracy from acoustic signals in say an event, and an index is added to the highlight portion. In an acoustic signal processing apparatus 10, a candidate domain extraction unit 13 retains a domain, a length of which with short-term amplitudes as calculated by an amplitude calculating unit 11 not being less than an amplitude threshold value is not less than a time threshold value, as a candidate domain. A feature extraction unit 14 extracts sound quality featuring quantities, relevant to the sound quality, from the acoustic signals, to quantify the sound quality peculiar to a climax. A candidate domain evaluating unit 15 calculates a score value, indicating the degree of the climax, using featuring quantities relevant to the amplitude or the sound quality for each candidate domain, in order to detect a true highlight domain, based on the so calculated score value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Mototsugu Abe, Akihiro Mukai, Masayuki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 6333437
    Abstract: A method for purifying a bromine compound by depositing the bromine compound represented by the following general formula (1) as solid particles from a crude solution containing the bromine compound: wherein (i) the crude solution is supplied into the slurry containing the particles of the bromine compound; (ii) the concentration of the particles of the bromine compound in the slurry is maintained at a predetermined range; (iii) the solvent contained in the slurry is a mixed solvent of a good solvent and a poor solvent and the ratio of the good solvent to the poor solvent is maintained at a predetermined value; and (iv) the solid particles of the bromine compound are separated from the slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Teijin Chemicals LTD
    Inventors: Yutaka Taketani, Haruhisa Hoshimi, Akihiro Mukai, Yasuhisa Tahira, Takahiro Sato