Patents by Inventor Atsushi Watanabe

Atsushi Watanabe 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: 20250111583
    Abstract: An image processing device for acquiring, with regard to a human object located in a virtual space, map data of the surface of the human object that is used in order to determine the external appearance of a region of the human object corresponding to the skin, acquiring state information indicating the state in the virtual space, and correcting a value included in the map data on the basis of the acquired state information, and the image processing device draws a spatial image illustrating an appearance of the virtual space by using the corrected map data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Masaomi NISHIDATE
  • Patent number: 12265203
    Abstract: To provide an antireflection member which not only has a low reflectance, but also is enhanced in scratch resistance, and an image display device comprising the antireflection member. An antireflection member 100 comprising a low refractive index layer 130 on a transparent substrate 110, in which the low refractive index layer 130 includes a binder resin and silica particles 132 and 134, a ratio of Si element attributed to the silica particles, obtained by analysis of a surface region of the low refractive index layer 130 by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 10.0 atomic percent or more and 18.0 atomic percent or less and a ratio of C element under the assumption that the ratio of Si element is defined to be 100 atomic percent is 180 atomic percent or more and 500 atomic percent or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kozakai, Tomoyuki Horio, Michiaki Takei, Osamu Watanabe, Keisuke Endou, Takanobu Tadaki, Kio Mizuno, Atsushi Washio, Keita Iwahara, Sho Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20250102945
    Abstract: An electrophotographic conductive member comprising: a conductive layer provided on an outer surface of a support, wherein the conductive layer comprises a plurality of domains dispersed in a matrix, the plurality of domains comprise a crosslinked product of a second rubber and a conductive particle, an outer surface of the electrophotographic conductive member is configured of the matrix and an exposed portion of the domain exposed on the outer surface of the electrophotographic conductive member, an impedance is 1.0×103 to 1.0×108? of the electrophotographic conductive member, and when specific regions are a first region and a second region, a volume resistivity R1 of a portion being not the conductive particle in the first region and a volume resistivity R2 of a portion being not the conductive particle in the second region satisfy R1>R2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: SATORU NISHIOKA, ATSUSHI UEMATSU, YUICHI KIKUCHI, HIROAKI WATANABE, YASUHIRO FUSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250102946
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic member comprising: a substrate having a conductive surface, an elastic layer, and a surface layer, in which an impedance of the electrophotographic member is in a range of 1.0×103 to 1.0×108?, the elastic layer comprises a first phase comprising at least a first rubber, and a second phase comprising a second rubber and conductive particles, a thickness of the elastic layer is 10 ?m or more, the elastic layer has a matrix-domain structure in which domains composed of the second phase are dispersed in a matrix composed of the first phase in a region of 5 ?m or more in a depth direction from an interface between the elastic layer and the surface layer, and the amount of the second phase in the elastic layer is greater near the surface and less in the internal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: ATSUSHI UEMATSU, SATORU NISHIOKA, HIROAKI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250092190
    Abstract: A polyester carbonate resin includes a constituent unit (A) represented by the following general formula (1), a constituent unit (B) represented by the following general formula (2), and a constituent unit (i) derived from a dicarboxylic acid or a carboxylic acid diester represented by the following general formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki KATO, Katsushi NISHIMORI, Atsushi MOTEGI, Kentaro ISHIHARA, Shoko MURATA SUZUKI, Takafumi WATANABE, Yuta ARAI, Yutaro HARADA
  • Publication number: 20250083023
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to play a moving image displayed on a display according to a motion state of a user and control a playback of the moving image and a screen of the display based on a script including a first command and a second command. The first command describes controlling the playback of the moving image in association with a first playback time of the moving image. The second command describes controlling the screen of the display in association with a second playback time of the moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kawase, Atsushi Ikeda, Hayato Watanabe, Kyosuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20250086816
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors update parameters of the first estimation model and the second estimation model so as to optimize a first loss function including a term indicating a difference between the correspondence information and correspondence training data that is training data concerning correspondence between the first pixel and the second pixel, a second loss function including a term concerning a depth, and a third loss function including a term indicating a difference in pixel value between the first pixel and the second pixel whose correspondence is indicated by the correspondence information, and generate the first estimation model and the second estimation model represented by the updated parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Weijun MAI, Atsushi KAWASAKI, Nao MISHIMA, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12246940
    Abstract: An enclosing device to insert an enclosure into an envelope conveyed to an enclosing position includes an envelope conveyor and an enclosing unit. The envelope conveyor conveys the envelope to the enclosing position. The enclosing unit opens a frontage of the envelope such that the enclosure is inserted into the envelope that has reached the enclosing position and includes an opening amount adjuster to adjust an opening amount of the frontage when the enclosure is inserted into the envelope. The opening amount adjuster adjusts the opening amount, depending on a flap length and a body length. The flap length is a length of a flap of the envelope in a conveyance direction in which the envelope is conveyed to the enclosing position. The body length is a length of a body of the envelope in the conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Watanabe, Michitaka Suzuki, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takahiro Matsuda, Atsushi Shinoda, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takuya Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20250076083
    Abstract: Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUMOTO, Tsukasa KONO, Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Tetsuya OHMI, Michihiro MAKITA, Naoki WATANABE, Sukhwa JUNG
  • Patent number: 12240524
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a center frame that is disposed closer to a center portion of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction than both side portions of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, that is disposed on a rear side in the vehicle, and that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a bumper beam that is disposed on a rear side of the center frame to be next to the center frame, that is disposed at a position which overlaps the center frame when viewed from a front-rear direction, and that is configured to be crushable due to a rear collision load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Masayasu Yoshida, Atsushi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20250065432
    Abstract: Provided is a submerged arc welding method that produces little fume, has good weldability, and is suitable for welding high-Mn-containing steel materials to be used in cryogenic environments. The method includes welding with a combination of a wire having a predetermined chemical composition and flux having a basicity [BL] of 1.5 to 2.4, while adjusting a welding heat input according to a groove cross-sectional area. In this way, a weld metal with high strength and excellent cryogenic impact toughness where the 0.2% proof stress at room temperature is 400 MPa or more and an absorbed energy (vE?196) in the Charpy impact test is 28 J or more can be easily manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi ANDO, Atsushi TAKADA, Kazufumi WATANABE, Takatoshi OKABE, Keiji UEDA, Masamichi SUZUKI, Peng HAN
  • Publication number: 20250065592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass article 2 including a first main surface 2A, a second main surface 2B, and an end surface 2C connecting the first main surface 2A and the second main surface 2B, in which the end surface 2C includes a side surface portion 2CC, a first chamfered portion 2CA connecting the side surface portion 2CC and the first main surface 2A, and a second chamfered portion 2CB connecting the side surface portion 2CC and the second main surface 2B, and a parameter R defined by Formula (1) satisfies Formula (2) (in expression (1), Ecg, A, B, C, D, and t, are as defined in the specification). (1): R=0.38·Ecg?A/t?2.61·B/t+4.38·C/t?10.6·D/t (2): R?23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Ryou HOKARI, Atsushi INOUE, Toshinari WATANABE, Yasuhiro INOUE
  • Patent number: 12234674
    Abstract: A first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a door lock control apparatus (10) including an on-site image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an on-site image generated by a camera for capturing a site where a reserved vehicle is present, an on-site sensing unit (12) that senses that a reserving person is present on the site, based on the on-site image, and a release command output unit (13) that outputs, when it is sensed that the reserving person is present on the site, a command of releasing a door lock of the reserved vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuki Akutsu, Atsushi Fukuzato, Daisuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12226675
    Abstract: In a golf ball having a core, a cover, at least one intermediate layer therebetween, and a coating layer on the cover, the cover is formed of a transparent or translucent resin composition and the intermediate layer is formed of a resin composition. The sphere consisting of the core encased by the intermediate layer has specific lightness and chroma values in the Lab color space. The coating layer is composed of one or more layer, at least one of which contains an effect pigment having polarizing properties. Markings are provided inside of the coating layer and have a specific L value. During use, the ball retains a visual to familiarity close to that of a white ball. Up close, it is clearly discernible from a white ball; from a distance, it appears white and is highly visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Watanabe, Atsushi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12228894
    Abstract: A smart window control device controls transmittance of a smart window provided as a window of a space where a temperature is controlled by an air conditioning system in accordance with a set temperature. The smart window control device includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain a predicted value of external environment information about outside of the space in an interval between a first time and a second time, the second time being when a predetermined time period has elapsed from the first time, calculate transition of the temperature of the space in the interval based on the predicted value of the external environment information in the interval, and control the transmittance of the smart window so that the temperature of the space in the interval transitions based on the calculated transition of the temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Akiko Ogasawara, Atsushi Kishi
  • Patent number: 12223072
    Abstract: Content data is registered in a file management system, an identifier of a user in the file management system is registered in blockchain data, and a right-holder terminal includes a permission request receiving unit that receives, from the file management system, permission request data for the content including an identifier of the user, a verification unit that verifies that the identifier of the user registered in the blockchain data corresponds to the identifier of the user included in the permission request data, and an permission issuing unit that transmits, to the file management system, permission data for permitting a use of the content by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Ohashi, Shigeru Fujimura, Atsushi Nakadaira, Masayoshi Chikada, Tatsuro Ishida, Hiroki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12221099
    Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
  • Patent number: 12216014
    Abstract: A strain measuring device (100) is a strain measuring device (100) for measuring strain on an FEP (10), and includes a viscous body (101) that has a lower rigidity than the FEP (10) and covers an uneven surface of the FEP (10), and a strain gauge (102) that is attached to a portion of a surface of the viscous body (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kobayashi, Kazuaki Watanabe, Masafumi Nakagawa, Atsushi Aratake
  • Patent number: 12217535
    Abstract: A biological information acquisition device includes a detection-value acquisition unit to acquire a detection value from a non-contact biometric sensor, a vital measurement unit to measure a vital sign of a target person (TP) using the detection value, an image-data acquisition unit to acquire image data indicating an image captured by a camera, an image processing unit to perform at least one of a state estimation process of estimating a state of the target person, an attribute estimation process of estimating an attribute of the target person, or a personal identification process of identifying the target person by performing image processing on the image captured including the target person, and a parameter setting unit to set a parameter in measuring the vital sign in accordance with a result of the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Kishi, Hirotaka Sakamoto, Atsushi Matsumoto, Shintaro Watanabe, Jun Ishii
  • Patent number: 12214783
    Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano