Patents by Inventor Akira Endo

Akira 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: 20240410969
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: acquiring information indicating a direction of a sound source with respect to at least one multi-microphone device; acquiring information regarding content of a speech emitted from the sound source and collected by the multi-microphone device; generating a map image in which the information regarding the content of the speech is arranged at a position corresponding to the direction of the sound source of the sound with respect to the multi-microphone device; and displaying the map image on a display unit of a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc., FrontAct Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruki NISHIMURA, Megumi TABATA, Akira ENDO, Yasuhiro HABARA, Masaki GOMI, Yudai TAIRA, Takashi HIRAOKA, Kazuki TAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240268328
    Abstract: A method for producing a genetically modified potato, which includes introducing deletion, insertion, or substitution into a CSLM gene of a potato. The genetically modified potato includes the CSLM gene into which deletion, insertion, or substitution is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yozo NAGIRA, Haruyasu HAMADA, Akira ENDO, Naoyuki UMEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240209389
    Abstract: The spirosolane skeleton 23-position hydroxylase gene and the spirosolane skeleton 23-position acetyltransferase gene derived from S. chacoense, S. tuberosum, and S. lycopersicum are found to be involved with the biosynthesis of leptine, which achieves resistance against Colorado potato beetle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Naoyuki UMEMOTO, Masaharu MIZUTANI, Ryota AKIYAMA, Kenji ASANO, Haruyasu HAMADA, Yozo NAGIRA, Akira ENDO, Kazuki SAITO
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220298518
    Abstract: A method for transforming a plant includes exposing a shoot apex of an axillary bud of a plant body, and introducing, into the shoot apex, a microparticle coated with at least one kind of nucleic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Haruyasu HAMADA, Yozo NAGIRA, Akira ENDO, Naoaki TAOKA
  • Publication number: 20220081615
    Abstract: An etching composition for silicon nitride includes: a phosphoric acid solution; and an additive containing a silane compound having a composition represented by General formula: Si(R1)(R2)(R3)(R4) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are monovalent groups, at least one of R1, R2, R3, or R4 is an alkoxy group, and at least another one of R1, R2, R3, or R4 is a functional group containing two or more oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Akira ENDO, Yasushi NAKASAKI, Masayasu MIYATA
  • Patent number: 11012091
    Abstract: LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of “1” of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Masanori Sato, Nabil Loghin, Toshihiro Fujiki, Ryoji Ikegaya, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yusuke Yoneyama, Kimiya Kato, Akira Endo, Sawako Kiriyama, Hiroyuki Mita, Hideshi Motoyama, Hiroshi Aoki, Daisuke Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20190393898
    Abstract: LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of “1” of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Masanori SATO, Nabil LOGHIN, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Ryoji IKEGAYA, Hiroyuki KAMATA, Yusuke YONEYAMA, Kimiya KATO, Akira ENDO, Sawako KIRIYAMA, Hiroyuki MITA, Hideshi MOTOYAMA, Hiroshi AOKI, Daisuke KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10260366
    Abstract: The turbo machine includes a rotor 1 with a rotating shaft 3, a stator 2 enclosing the rotor 1 and a sealing device 20 installed in a clearance passage defined between the rotor 1 and the stator 2, the sealing device 20 controlling a leakage flow from the clearance passage B. The sealing device 20 includes a plurality of sealing fins 24 disposed on at least one of the rotor 1 and the stator 2, and arranged in an axial direction of the rotor 1. The sealing device 20 further includes at least one deceleration controlling member 25 provided on the rotational side. The deceleration controlling member 25 projects toward a chamber 30 defined between the sealing fins 24 and is configured to control a reduction in the velocity of the leakage flow B in the chamber 30 in the rotational direction of the rotor 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamaguchi, Akira Endo, Kenichi Murata
  • Patent number: 10053044
    Abstract: A far-side airbag apparatus includes: an airbag which is fixed via a fixed portion set in a rear end portion of the airbag, and protects an upper body of an occupant, who sits on a vehicle seat positioned apart from a side wall portion of a vehicle in which multiple vehicle seats are provided side by side in a width direction, by deploying and inflating the airbag diagonally forward and upward from the fixed portion between adjacent vehicle seats via inflating gas which is supplied from a gas generator according to a side impact applied to the side wall portion of the vehicle, wherein a rear lower portion of the airbag is formed as a support portion that has a high rigidity and supports an upper portion positioned higher than the rear lower portion of the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Masuda, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Akira Endo, Yuji Matsuzaki, Takayuki Umeyama
  • Patent number: 9995164
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating fluid machine capable of holding down a decrease rate of a circumferential velocity of a leakage fluid in an interspatial flow passage and thereby controlling an unstable fluid force. A steam turbine includes: an interspatial flow passage 15 formed between an outer circumferential surface of a rotor blade cover 6 and an inner circumferential surface of a grooved section 14 in a casing 1; annular sealing fins 17A to 17D spatially arranged in a direction of a rotor axis, at a side of the rotor blade cover 6 in the interspatial flow passage 15; and a friction enhancement portion (more specifically, rough surfaces 19A to 19E) disposed over the whole circumference on the side of the rotor blade cover 6 in the interspatial flow passage 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyo Nishijima, Akira Endo, Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9784637
    Abstract: An adsorption characteristic measuring apparatus is configured to: acquire a unit-time leak pressure value from a pressure increase value of an internal pressure value of a sample tube caused by an non-adsorption gas leaking from the outside of a fitting portion into an inner space of the sample tube; acquire a pressure value at which a temporal change of the internal pressure value of the sample tube assumes an equilibrium state when an adsorption gas present in the reference volume portion is supplied into the sample tube and the sample tube is in a closed state; calculate a pressure value after correction of a real leak pressure value is performed on a measured equilibrium pressure value, as a true equilibrium pressure value, the real leak pressure value being obtained in such a manner that the unit-time leak pressure value is multiplied by a leak time; and calculate an adsorption isotherm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, MicrotracBEL Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Endo, Marie Shimomura, Satoshi Taniguchi, Kazuyuki Nakai, Masayuki Yoshida, Makoto Okawa
  • Publication number: 20170207629
    Abstract: An industrial demand response enabling system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first determination device configured to specify a first facility and a second facility among facilities installed in an industrial installation, the first facility being capable of addressing reduction of electric power used by the facility by partially stopping the facility or reducing capacity, and the second facility being capable of addressing reduction of electric power used by the facility by changing an operating time period of the facility and calculate a first reducible amount of the electric power reducible by the first facility and a second reducible amount of the electric power reducible by the second facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira SEKI, Teruaki MARUMO, Ken-ichi INOUE, Takao MARUYAMA, Hiroshi FUKUMINE, Masahiro TERADA, Akira ENDO
  • Publication number: 20170036636
    Abstract: A far-side airbag apparatus includes: an airbag which is fixed via a fixed portion set in a rear end portion of the airbag, and protects an upper body of an occupant, who sits on a vehicle seat positioned apart from a side wall portion of a vehicle in which multiple vehicle seats are provided side by side in a width direction, by deploying and inflating the airbag diagonally forward and upward from the fixed portion between adjacent vehicle seats via inflating gas which is supplied from a gas generator according to a side impact applied to the side wall portion of the vehicle, wherein a rear lower portion of the airbag is formed as a support portion that has a high rigidity and supports an upper portion positioned higher than the rear lower portion of the airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Yasushi MASUDA, Shigeyuki SUZUKI, Akira ENDO, Yuji MATSUZAKI, Takayuki UMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160130965
    Abstract: The turbo machine includes a rotor 1 with a rotating shaft 3, a stator 2 enclosing the rotor 1 and a sealing device 20 installed in a clearance passage defined between the rotor 1 and the stator 2, the sealing device 20 controlling a leakage flow from the clearance passage B. The sealing device 20 includes a plurality of sealing fins 24 disposed on at least one of the rotor 1 and the stator 2, and arranged in an axial direction of the rotor 1. The sealing device 20 further includes at least one deceleration controlling member 25 provided on the rotational side. The deceleration controlling member 25 projects toward a chamber 30 defined between the sealing fins 24 and is configured to control a reduction in the velocity of the leakage flow B in the chamber 30 in the rotational direction of the rotor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuyuki YAMAGUCHI, Akira ENDO, Kenichi MURATA
  • Publication number: 20160109321
    Abstract: An adsorption characteristic measuring apparatus is configured to: acquire a unit-time leak pressure value from a pressure increase value of an internal pressure value of a sample tube caused by an non-adsorption gas leaking from the outside of a fitting portion into an inner space of the sample tube; acquire a pressure value at which a temporal change of the internal pressure value of the sample tube assumes an equilibrium state when an adsorption gas present in the reference volume portion is supplied into the sample tube and the sample tube is in a closed state; calculate a pressure value after correction of a real leak pressure value is performed on a measured equilibrium pressure value, as a true equilibrium pressure value, the real leak pressure value being obtained in such a manner that the unit-time leak pressure value is multiplied by a leak time; and calculate an adsorption isotherm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Akira ENDO, Marie SHIMOMURA, Satoshi Taniguchi, Kazuyuki NAKAI, Masayuki YOSHIDA, Makoto OKAWA
  • Patent number: 9319162
    Abstract: A signal processor includes a period detection section which detects that a period is currently used for communication of a frame; a pattern detection section which detects, from the received signal, a first signal pattern by which the end of communication of the frame is recognized; and an output processing section which outputs the received signal to a controller; configured to instruct, upon detection of the first signal pattern in the period being currently used for communication of a frame, the controller to halt startup of communication action of the next frame, until the period being currently used for communication of a frame comes to the end, to thereby reduce an event such that frames are transmitted from a plurality of communication devices simultaneously, and to thereby allow the communication action for the next frame to proceed correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Shimamura, Koichi Mita, Takashi Arai, Hideshi Fujishima, Akira Endo
  • Publication number: 20150369075
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating fluid machine capable of holding down a decrease rate of a circumferential velocity of a leakage fluid in an interspatial flow passage and thereby controlling an unstable fluid force. A steam turbine includes: an interspatial flow passage 15 formed between an outer circumferential surface of a rotor blade cover 6 and an inner circumferential surface of a grooved section 14 in a casing 1; annular sealing fins 17A to 17D spatially arranged in a direction of a rotor axis, at a side of the rotor blade cover 6 in the interspatial flow passage 15; and a friction enhancement portion (more specifically, rough surfaces 19A to 19E) disposed over the whole circumference on the side of the rotor blade cover 6 in the interspatial flow passage 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyo NISHIJIMA, Akira ENDO, Kazuyuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150260042
    Abstract: The invention provides an axial flow machine that effectively reduces the unstable hydrodynamic force induced by leakage flow and thereby prevents unstable vibrations. A steam turbine comprises: a ring-shaped cover 6 connected to the outer circumferential side of a rotor blade row 4; and a ring-shaped concave section 12 provided on an inner circumferential surface 8 of a casing 1 for housing the cover 6. A narrow passage 15 is formed between an outer circumferential surface 13 of the cover 6 and a bottom surface 14 of the concave section 12. A narrow inflow passage 18 is formed between an upstream lateral surface 16 of the cover 6 and an upstream lateral surface 17 of the concave section 12. A narrow outflow passage 21 is formed between a downstream lateral surface 19 of the cover 6 and a downstream lateral surface 20 of the concave section 12. Between the narrow inflow passage 18 and the narrow passage 15 lies an expanded inflow passage 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyo Nishijima, Akira Endo, Katsutoshi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Yamaguchi