Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ito

Atsushi Ito 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).

  • Patent number: 11334706
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display that displays a message, and an association unit that associates a first message including an image with a second message that includes a character string that is entered in a state that an original image of the image is displayed via the image on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Qianru Qiu, Atsushi Ito
  • Publication number: 20220111664
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a head which has nozzles configured to discharge a photocurable liquid that is curable by light toward a recording medium, the recording medium including a first base material and a second base material having a surface state different from a surface state of the first base material; a light irradiator which is configured to irradiate the light onto the photocurable liquid disposed on the recording medium; a movement mechanism which is configured to relatively move the recording medium, and the head and the light irradiator in a movement direction; and a controller configured to execute a recording process; an information acquiring process; an irradiation light amount acquiring process; and a first light irradiation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Haruhisa TAKAYAMA, Atsushi ITO
  • Patent number: 11299171
    Abstract: A driving support control device of a vehicle is provided including an acquiring unit configured to acquire a traveling state of the vehicle which is detected and a traveling environment of the vehicle, and a control unit, configured to, in a case where zero-point learning of a yaw rate sensor has not been completed, cause a driving support unit to execute collision avoidance support using a reduced operational area reduced from a reference operational area which becomes a reference in view of an error of the yaw rate sensor as an operational area of collision avoidance support, and the traveling state of the vehicle and the traveling environment of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Kamiya, Atsushi Ito
  • Patent number: 11301815
    Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a registration unit that registers plural participants for each work, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires pieces of positional information of the participants, and a notification unit that notifies at least one participant out of the participants when a positional relationship between the participants is a predetermined positional relationship based on the pieces of positional information of the participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Toshiro Shimada, Atsushi Ito, Shinobu Ozeki, Takayuki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11288777
    Abstract: Image processing methods and apparatus are described. The image processing method comprises receiving input of a visible-ray image and an infrared-ray image obtained by photographing a same subject, estimating, based on the visible-ray image, the infrared-ray image and motion information, a blur estimate associated with the visible-ray image, and generating, based on the estimated blur estimate, a corrected visible-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Aoki, Ryuta Satoh, Atsushi Ito, Hideki Oyaizu, Takeshi Uemori
  • Publication number: 20220093827
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi NODA, Hideki HAHIRO, Tetsuji FUJITA, Atsushi ITO, Koichiro AKASAKA, Yasutaka IMAI, Michifumi NAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11279148
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head, a radiation unit, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller configured to: select a first recording mode or a second recording mode; control the head, the radiation unit, and the movement mechanism to execute a first image recording process when that the first recording mode is selected; and control the head, the radiation unit, and the movement mechanism to execute a second image recording process when the second recording mode is selected. The second image recording process includes radiating the light in a state in which a mutual positional relationship among the plurality of light sources or a mutual light emission intensity relationship among the plurality of light sources is different from that in the first image recording process, so that a difference between a first maximum radiation intensity and a second maximum radiation intensity is not more than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Noda, Atsushi Ito
  • Patent number: 11283993
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image-capturing apparatus, an image-capturing method, and an image-capturing device that allow reduction of an influence of diffraction due to opening sections of a mask in lensless image-capturing. Before a mask, a band-pass filter that is divided into a plurality of areas, each of which transmits incident light in a different wavelength band, is provided, and the mask that includes opening sections, and modulates the incident light, which has been transmitted through the band-pass filter, in the wavelength bands that are different for the individual areas is provided. The opening sections of the mask have such unit sizes that blurring resulting from diffraction which occurs to each wavelength of the incident light is minimized. The present disclosure can be applied to a lensless image-capturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Ilya Reshetouski
  • Publication number: 20220083133
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain detection information from a detector that detects a user; obtain a movement mode of the user based on the detection information; estimate a being time during, which the user is in a predetermined viewing area of a display apparatus based on the movement mode; and control display of video data displayed on the display apparatus so that a playback time of the video data becomes less than or equal to the being time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Atsushi ITO
  • Publication number: 20220075587
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform determining whether a position of a first device is a predetermined position, and controlling image displays on a first display portion provided at the first device and a second display portion provided at a second device in accordance with a determination result. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including controlling image displays on the first display portion and the second display portion so that a predetermined image is displayed on the first display portion before it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position, and the predetermined image is displayed while gradually moving over time from the first display portion to the second display portion when it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yashiki, Takashi Tetsuka, Atsushi Ito, Nanami Tsukamoto, Shinichiro Yamauchi, Tomoko Shintani
  • Patent number: 11263466
    Abstract: A feature amount generation unit 26a of an information processing unit 20-1 generates a feature amount indicating the relationship in spectral reflectance between two points, from spectral data of a multispectral image in an irradiation region of a common light source acquired by a multispectral camera 10. A recognition processing unit 27 performs recognition processing on a subject, on the basis of the feature amount generated by the feature amount generation unit 26a, with at least one of the two points regarded as a position in an image area of the subject that is a recognition target in the multispectral image. Therefore, the feature amount generation unit 26a can easily generate the feature amount robust against variation of the light source and appropriate for the subject. In addition, the authentication processing unit 27 can accurately perform the recognition processing even if the light source varies between registration of the subject and the recognition of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Uemori, Atsushi Ito, Shinichiro Gomi
  • Patent number: 11250875
    Abstract: A behavior support system that implements behavior support taking account of uncertain information obtained in a vehicle is provided. Uncertain information containing at least a conversation between passengers is obtained and analyzed. Support information for supporting behaviors of the passengers is obtained based on a result of the analysis, and the obtained support information is output to a helmet of at least one of a first passenger and a second passenger. New information regarding a word for the second passenger is obtained as the support information, based on the word obtained from the second passenger, and the support information is output to the first passenger so that the new information is provided from the first passenger to the second passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yasumasa Matsui, Kota Nakauchi, Yasuaki Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20220015649
    Abstract: The present technology is to provide a small-sized biological signal measuring device capable of performing both pulse measurement and blood flow measurement with high accuracy. The present technology provides a biological signal measuring device that includes: a light emitting unit that includes at least a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element that irradiate a biological surface; and a light receiving unit that includes at least one light receiving element that receives light scattered in a living body by light emitted from the light emitting unit, and outputs biological information that is a light intensity signal measured by the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOYA IKUTA, ATSUSHI ITO, KAZUNARI YOSHIFUJI
  • Publication number: 20220014618
    Abstract: An information transmission apparatus includes: a mode instruction unit configured to instruct a first mode to permit a voice output by the voice output unit or a second mode to prohibit the voice output; an image control unit configured to control a display image of a display unit so as to display an agent image including a face image of an agent; and an output determination unit configured to determine whether or not output of information to the user is necessary. The image control unit controls the display image so as to display, when the output determination unit determines output of information is necessary without being input a voice of an utterance by the user in a state where the second mode is instructed, a second agent image including a second face image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Tetsuka, Atsushi Ito, Nanami Tsukamoto, Shinichiro Yamauchi, Tomoko Shintani, Tetsuya Yashiki
  • Publication number: 20210401300
    Abstract: To provide a biological information measuring device capable of suppressing positional displacement between a light emitting element and a light receiving element, and an opening formed on a light shielding film. A biological information measuring device provided with a plate-shaped lid having translucency, a first light shielding film provided on a first principal surface of the lid and having conductivity, a light emitting element, and a light receiving element, in which the light emitting element and the light receiving element are electrically joined to the first light shielding film, and the first light shielding film includes a first light emitting side opening through which light emitted from the light emitting element passes, and a first light receiving side opening through which light received by the light receiving element passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ITO, Yoshiro TAKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210383441
    Abstract: A service-providing-apparatus includes: profile-information-storage-unit storing profile-information including information representing personality of each of service-providers and user; service-information-storage-unit storing information about the service provided by the service-providers; request-information-acquisition-unit acquiring request-information about service requested by the user; candidate-extraction-unit extracting candidate who can provide the service requested by the user to the user based on the request-information; profile-comparison-unit comparing the profile-information about the candidate and the user; provider-determination-unit determining service-provider who provides the service requested by the user to the user based on comparison-result; and user-information-acquisition-unit acquiring user-information of each of the service-providers and the user transmitted from user-device of each of the service-providers and the user and storing the user-information acquired in the profile-infor
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Nanami Tsukamoto, Shinichiro Yamauchi, Tomoko Shintani, Tetsuya Yashiki, Takashi Tetsuka
  • Publication number: 20210384497
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of further improving the cycle characteristics in a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a silicon-based negative electrode active material and a carbon-based negative electrode active material are used in combination as a negative electrode active material, and constituent components of the electrode are not bound to each other via a binder. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention has a configuration in which a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a current collector. The negative electrode active material contains composite secondary particles in which silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and carbon-based negative electrode active material particles are bound to each other via a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi NAKANO, Atsushi ITO, Wataru OGIHARA, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Kazuya MINAMI, Naofumi SHOJI, Kaho SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210370946
    Abstract: An automated lane change control detects a preceding vehicle that is traveling in a same travel lane as a host vehicle, determines whether a predetermined condition is satisfied between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and executes an automated lane change in the host vehicle after a first predetermined time has elapsed from determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied. The automated lane change of the host vehicle is executed after a first predetermined time has elapsed after determining that the predetermined condition has been satisfied. A second predetermined time is set that is longer than the first predetermined time as a time for prohibiting the automated lane change upon assessing the presents of a previous driver lane change. The automated lane change is prohibited in an interval that starts when a prohibiting condition is satisfied and ends when the second predetermined time elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yohei TANIGUCHI, Shuko ISHIMARU, Tatsuya SHINO, Atsushi ITO
  • Patent number: 11186290
    Abstract: An emotion inference device and an emotion inference system that are capable of inferring a user's emotion with higher precision. A motorcycle includes an individual personality that is configured on the basis of information on a user from a plurality of products associated with the user, connected to a communication network, and including the motorcycle, an automobile, a rice cooker, a vacuum cleaner, a television receiver, and a refrigerator, the individual personality forms a base personality, and the motorcycle includes an emotion detecting section that detects an emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yasumasa Matsui, Kohei Matsuura, Akiko Sakai, Kimihiro Yonekawa
  • Patent number: 11182880
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for image processing are provided. The method comprises receiving input of a visible-ray image and a far-infrared-ray image obtained by photographing a same subject, estimating a blur estimation result in the visible-ray image, wherein estimating a blur estimation result comprises calculating a correlation between the visible-ray image and each of a plurality of filter-applied far-infrared ray images in which a different filter is applied to the far-infrared-ray image and selecting the filter for which the calculated correlation is highest, and performing a correction process on the visible-ray image based, at least in part, on the blur estimation result to generate a corrected visible-ray image from which the blur is reduced, wherein generating the corrected visible-ray image comprises applying, to the visible ray image, an inverse filter having an inverse characteristic to a characteristic of the selected filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Aoki, Ryuta Satoh, Atsushi Ito, Hideki Oyaizu, Takeshi Uemori