Patents by Inventor Akira Hirata

Akira Hirata 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: 20240260285
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor capable of improving characteristics. There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter provided above the semiconductor substrate and converting light into charges, and a second photoelectric converter provided above the first photoelectric converter and converting light into charges, where the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter include a photoelectric conversion stacked structure in which a common electrode a photoelectric conversion film, and a readout electrode are stacked so that the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are in a line-symmetrical relationship with each other with a vertical plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked structure as an axis of symmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki TOGASHI, Iwao YAGI, Masahiro JOEI, Fumihiko KOGA, Kenichi MURATA, Shintarou HIRATA, Yosuke SAITO, Akira FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240187949
    Abstract: A base station device includes, a notifier configured to notify, when detecting a fact that a terminal device is under a reflection communication, the terminal device of a reflection communication handover condition for a case where the reflection communication is performed, and a controller configured to perform, when the terminal device under the reflection communication with a movement source base station device performs handover, control to restrain the terminal device from performing handover to the movement source base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: AKIRA HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11963039
    Abstract: A base station includes, in an aspect, a first reception unit, a first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit. The first reception unit receives information related to a communication processing state of another base station from the other base station. The first transmission unit transmits duplication of data to be transmitted to a terminal device to the other base station. The second transmission unit transmits the data to the terminal device by using radio communication. Furthermore, the first transmission unit transmits, after the transmission of the data performed by the second transmission unit has been completed, in accordance with the information related to the communication processing state of the other base station, a transmission completion notification that indicates that the transmission of the data has been completed to the other base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220392813
    Abstract: A control method of a film forming apparatus includes (a) acquiring a first temperature measured by a first temperature sensor in a tubular member in a processing container of the film forming apparatus; (b) calculating a first power to be output to a heating unit disposed in the processing container; (c) acquiring a second temperature measured by a second temperature sensor provided outside the tubular member in the processing container; (d) calculating a second power to be output to the heating unit; (e) calculating a predicted value of the second temperature at a predetermined time ahead, from the second temperature based on a prediction model; (f) outputting either the first power or the second power to the heating unit according to the predicted value of the second temperature; and (g) repeating (a) to (f) in a predetermined cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Akira HIRATA, Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11403944
    Abstract: The present application is such that, in order to prevent communication disruption caused by a change in the situation of wireless communication due to the distance between a roadway instrument and a self-vehicle, a vehicle wireless communication device includes a communication section; a control section which controls the reception in the communication section; a position detection section which detects the position of a roadway instrument; and a running direction detection section which detects the running direction of a self-vehicle, wherein the communication section, based on the roadway instrument position detected by the position detection section and on the self-vehicle running direction detected by the running direction detection section, receives information from a roadway instrument next closest to a roadway instrument carrying out communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Takehara, Akira Hirata, Keisuke Morita
  • Publication number: 20220229664
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to detect an access pattern according to which a memory reference instruction in a first loop process to be executed posterior to a second loop process accesses first data elements in the memory every loop iteration, and insert a prefetch instruction to the second loop process based on the access pattern, the prefetch instruction being an instruction to transfer at least one of the first data elements from the memory to a first sector of a cache memory, the at least one of the first data elements transferred to the first sector of the cache memory being never cached out by a second data element different from each of the first data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Arakawa, MAKOTO KOMAGATA, Akira HIRATA, Kensuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210410008
    Abstract: A base station includes, in an aspect, a first reception unit, a first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit. The first reception unit receives information related to a communication processing state of another base station from the other base station. The first transmission unit transmits duplication of data to be transmitted to a terminal device to the other base station. The second transmission unit transmits the data to the terminal device by using radio communication. Furthermore, the first transmission unit transmits, after the transmission of the data performed by the second transmission unit has been completed, in accordance with the information related to the communication processing state of the other base station, a transmission completion notification that indicates that the transmission of the data has been completed to the other base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: AKIRA HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11071012
    Abstract: A base station includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit that processes a wireless signal. The first processing unit includes a third processing unit that processes a control signal and a fourth processing unit that processes user data. The third processing unit shares, with the fourth processing unit, a second terminal identifier used in user-data processing performed in the second processing unit and the fourth processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Hirata
  • Publication number: 20210176744
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is configured to perform processing, the processing including: executing an addition processing configured to add identification information for identifying report information to processed report information obtained by performing processing corresponding to a type of the report information on the report information received from a higher-level network; and executing a transmission processing configured to transmit the processed report information to which the identification information is added by the addition unit to a second communication apparatus coupled to a radio link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: AKIRA HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20210150938
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a training device for ophthalmic surgery so as to make it possible to readily practice inner limiting membrane peeling by using a simulated eye including a Japanese quail eggshell. This training device 1 for ophthalmic surgery includes a base 10 with a hollow portion 11 and a soft simulated sclera member 20 shaped like a part of sphere, wherein the hollow portion 11 is tapered from an upper side to a lower side and houses, upon use, a simulated eye 50 including an eggshell; the simulated sclera member 20 is provided on an upper side of the base 10; and a surgical instrument can contact, through the simulated sclera member 20, an inner surface of the simulated eye 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: MANI, INC.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Hanemoto, Akira Hirata, Yoshiyuki Tazawa, Keisuke Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 10940856
    Abstract: A crossing detection unit (21) detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a roadway on which a vehicle (100) travels. A behavior detection unit (22) detects a behavior of a nearby vehicle traveling around the vehicle (100). A stop determination unit (23) determines whether or not to stop the vehicle (100) in view of the detection of the pedestrian who is about to cross the roadway by the crossing detection unit (21) and the behavior of the nearby vehicle detected by the behavior detection unit (22). A vehicle control unit (24) stops the vehicle (100) before the pedestrian when the stop determination unit (23) determines to stop the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hirata, Takehiko Hanada, Masahiro Abukawa
  • Publication number: 20200374771
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a wireless unit and a handover processing unit. The wireless unit transmits a radio signal including first information to identify an own device in a cell managed by the wireless device. The handover processing unit performs processing related to handover, when receiving a handover instruction including second information to identify a cell from a wireless control device, with respect to a terminal device in the cell according to the second information included in the handover instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: AKIRA HIRATA
  • Patent number: 10796569
    Abstract: A direction identification unit (21) identifies a traveling direction in which a surrounding vehicle travels in a partial region of a region indicated by image information (42) obtained by photographing using a camera (31). A feature amount acquisition unit (22) acquires a reference feature amount (41) being a feature amount computed from a reference image corresponding to the identified traveling direction. A vehicle determination unit (23) computes an image feature amount being a feature amount of the image information of the partial region and compares the computed image feature amount with the acquired reference feature amount (41), thereby determining whether the surrounding vehicle is present in the partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi Hasegawa, Masahiro Abukawa, Akira Hirata, Michinori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10785709
    Abstract: A base station device has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits reporting information including information of divided resources, information of connection modes used when connecting to the divided resources, and information for identifying services associated with the divided resources. Here, the divided resources are obtained by dividing resources in association with services provided via a core network. The receiver receives, from a terminal that has received the reporting information, a connection request that specifies a certain connection mode to be used for connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Hirata, Takayoshi Ode
  • Publication number: 20200242928
    Abstract: The present application is such that, in order to prevent communication disruption caused by a change in the situation. of wireless communication due to the distance between a roadway instrument and a self-vehicle, a vehicle wireless communication device includes a communication section; a control section which controls the reception in the communication. section; a position detection. section which detects the position of a roadway instrument; and a running direction detection section which detects the running direction of a self-vehicle, wherein the communication section, based on the roadway instrument position detected. by the position detection section and on the self-vehicle running direction detected by the running direction detection section, receives information from a roadway instrument next closest to a roadway instrument carrying out communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi TAKEHARA, Akira HIRATA, Keisuke MORITA
  • Publication number: 20200221340
    Abstract: A base station includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit that processes a wireless signal. The first processing unit includes a third processing unit that processes a control signal and a fourth processing unit that processes user data. The third processing unit shares, with the fourth processing unit, a second terminal identifier used in user-data processing performed in the second processing unit and the fourth processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: AKIRA HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20190215761
    Abstract: A base station device has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits reporting information including information of divided resources, information of connection modes used when connecting to the divided resources, and information for identifying services associated with the divided resources. Here, the divided resources are obtained by dividing resources in association with services provided via a core network. The receiver receives, from a terminal that has received the reporting information, a connection request that specifies a certain connection mode to be used for connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: AKIRA HIRATA, Takayoshi Ode
  • Patent number: 10332760
    Abstract: There is provided a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus that eliminates a preliminary study on a resonance point while maintaining a low contamination and a high uniformity even in multi-step etching. In a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus including the step of adjusting a radio frequency bias current carried to a counter antenna electrode, the method includes the steps of: setting a reactance of a variable element to an initial value; detecting a bias current carried to the counter antenna electrode; searching for a maximum value of the detected electric current; and adjusting a value of the reactance of the variable element from the maximum value to the set value and then fixing the value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Mori, Akira Hirata, Koichi Yamamoto, Takao Arase
  • Publication number: 20190005814
    Abstract: A direction identification unit (21) identifies a traveling direction in which a surrounding vehicle travels in a partial region of a region indicated by image information (42) obtained by photographing using a camera (31). A feature amount acquisition unit (22) acquires a reference feature amount (41) being a feature amount computed from a reference image corresponding to the identified traveling direction. A vehicle determination unit (23) computes an image feature amount being a feature amount of the image information of the partial region and compares the computed image feature amount with the acquired reference feature amount (41), thereby determining whether the surrounding vehicle is present in the partial region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi HASEGAWA, Masahiro ABUKAWA, Akira HIRATA, Michinori YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180362034
    Abstract: A crossing detection unit (21) detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a roadway on which a vehicle (100) travels. A behavior detection unit (22) detects a behavior of a nearby vehicle traveling around the vehicle (100). A stop determination unit (23) determines whether or not to stop the vehicle (100) in view of the detection of the pedestrian who is about to cross the roadway by the crossing detection unit (21) and the behavior of the nearby vehicle detected by the behavior detection unit (22). A vehicle control unit (24) stops the vehicle (100) before the pedestrian when the stop determination unit (23) determines to stop the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira HIRATA, Takehiko HANADA, Masahiro ABUKAWA