Patents by Inventor Daiki Kato

Daiki Kato 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: 12212901
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus comprising: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image; a compression unit configured to compress a captured image to generate compressed data; a reproduction unit configured to generate, from the compressed data, a reproduced image that reproduces the captured image; an evaluation acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation corresponding to a degree of approximation between the reproduced image and the captured image; and a learning processing unit configured to perform learning processing of a model configured to output, in response to an input of a new captured image, a compression parameter value to be applied in compression of the captured image, by using learning data including the evaluation, a captured image corresponding to the evaluation, and a compression parameter value applied in compression of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kojima, Jun Naraoka, Toshiaki Takahashi, Daiki Kato, Takaaki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240369265
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes first and second evaporation units connected in parallel to a flow of a refrigerant, and an accumulator. When a path of an energy flow in which heat of a first object to be cooled moves to a suction refrigerant drawn into a compressor is defined as a first path, and when a path of an energy flow in which heat of a second object to be cooled moves to the suction refrigerant is defined as a second path, the accumulator is disposed in at least one of the first path and the second path. Furthermore, the refrigeration cycle device is provided with a first switching unit switched such that heat of the first object to be cooled is moved while bypassing the accumulator, and a second switching unit switched such that heat of the second object to be cooled is moved while bypassing the accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Daiki KATO, Norihiko ENOMOTO, Yuichi KAMI
  • Patent number: 12135394
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus illuminates probe light. A gating camera captures an image for each of image capture ranges divided in the depth direction. A camera controller controls a timing at which the illumination apparatus illuminates the probe light and a timing at which an image sensor is exposed such that each slice image output from the image sensor for each image capture range includes only an object included in the corresponding image capture range while changing the image capture range. An image processing unit generates a final image including the entire object of interest based on the multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple image capture ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Masayuki Takahashi, Koji Itaba
  • Patent number: 12128979
    Abstract: An electric device for a human-powered vehicle comprises an electrical contact. The electrical contact has a first state where the electrical contact receives electricity from a power supply and a second state where the electrical contact receives information from an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Takaya Masuda, Daiki Kato, Tomohiro Takimoto
  • Patent number: 12125627
    Abstract: A multilayer conductor component includes an element body, an internal conductor, and an external electrode. The external electrode includes a sintered metal layer. The sintered metal layer is disposed on an end surface, a pair of side surfaces, a first main surface, and a second main surface of the element body. An electrode length, which is a length in the first direction from an edge of the sintered metal layer to a reference plane including the end surface, at a central portion of the first main surface in the third direction, is shorter than the electrode length at each of the ridge portions. The electrode length at a central portion of each of the pair of side surfaces in the second direction is equal to or less than the electrode length at each of the ridge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Masashi Shimoyasu, Yoji Tozawa, Seiichi Nakagawa, Akihiko Oide, Makoto Yoshino, Kazuhiro Ebina
  • Patent number: 12094642
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor component includes an element body, an internal conductor, and an external electrode. The internal conductor is disposed in the element body. The external electrode is disposed on a surface of the element body and electrically connected to the internal conductor. The external electrode includes a sintered metal layer and a plating layer. The sintered metal layer is disposed on the surface of the element body. The plating layer covers the sintered metal layer. The sintered metal layer includes a thick portion and thin portions. The thick portion covers the surface of the element body. A plurality of glass particles is dispersed in the thick portion. The thin portions cover glass particles exposed on a surface of the thick portion among the plurality of glass particles and being in contact with the plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Shimoyasu, Daiki Kato, Yoji Tozawa, Takashi Endo, Seiichi Nakagawa, Mitsuru Ito, Kenta Sasaki, Akihiko Oide, Makoto Yoshino, Kazuhiro Ebina
  • Publication number: 20240219086
    Abstract: A heat pump cycle device includes a compressor, a branching unit, a heating unit, a heating-unit-side depressurizing unit, a bypass passage, a bypass flow-rate adjusting unit, a mixing unit, and a target pressure difference determining unit. The target pressure difference determining unit determines a target pressure difference as a target value of a pressure difference determined by subtracting a suctioned refrigerant pressure from a discharge refrigerant pressure. An operation of at least one of the compressor, the heating-unit-side depressurizing unit, or the bypass flow-rate adjusting unit is controlled so that the pressure difference comes close to the target pressure difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kota TAKEICHI, Atsushi INABA, Yuichi KAMI, Kengo SUGIMURA, Daiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240217986
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a high-yield production method of a hydroxythienoimidazole derivative, a vinyl sulfide derivative, an n-butylidene sulfide derivative, and a thienoimidazole derivative substituted with a straight-chain saturated hydrocarbon, and, in order to achieve the object, a production method according to one embodiment includes a step of mixing a thiolactone derivative represented by formula (I) with a Grignard reagent represented by formula (1) or (2) in the presence of a copper salt to obtain a hydroxythienoimidazole derivative represented by formula (II) or (IV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko SEKI, Kazushi MASHIMA, Hayato TSURUGI, Daiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240206493
    Abstract: To provide an edible vegetable fat and oil having an enhanced scent of sesame oil. This edible vegetable fat and oil has a scent of sesame oil and contains 2-methylpyrazine, dimethylpyrazine, 2-furanmethanol, furfural, and pyrazine. A content of 2-methylpyrazine is 6 ?g or more in 100 mg of the edible vegetable fat and oil and is larger than a content of dimethylpyrazine and a content of 2-furanmethanol. A content ratio of dimethylpyrazine to 2-methylpyrazine is from 0.40 to 0.90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Sendai HARADA, Daiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240210531
    Abstract: The gating camera 20 divides the field of view in the depth-direction into multiple ranges RNG1 through RNGN, and generates multiple slice images IMGs1 through IMGsN that correspond to the multiple ranges RNG1 through RNGN. The illumination apparatus 22 is capable of controlling the light emission timing, and emits probe light L1 in synchronization with the light emission timing signal S1. The image sensor 24 is capable of exposure in synchronization with the exposure timing signal S2. The camera controller 26 controls the light emission timing of the illumination apparatus 22 and the image capture timing of the image sensor 24 for each range, and controls the effective image capture range of the image sensor 24 according to the vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun TANEMOTO, Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Koji ITABA, Daiki KATO, Masatoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11987062
    Abstract: A method for correcting an image includes: moving first and second ink jet heads and a medium relative to each other, each of the first and second ink jet heads including nozzles and drive elements corresponding to the nozzles respectively; discharging ink droplets from the nozzles of the first and second ink jet heads, by connecting each of the drive elements to one of power supply circuits and by applying voltage to each of the drive elements, the power supply circuits having different output voltage values each other; determining a density difference between a first image region and a second image region; and switching the voltage to be applied to first drive elements to a first voltage by switching the power supply circuits to be connected to the first drive elements based on the density difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Hiroto Sugahara, Taro Nagano
  • Publication number: 20240120142
    Abstract: The electronic component includes an element body, an internal conductor, a cover layer, and a conductor layer. The internal conductor is disposed in the element body. The cover layer is disposed on an outer surface of the element body and has an electrical insulation property. The conductor layer is disposed on the cover layer and is electrically connected to the internal conductor. The conductor layer includes a portion. The portion protrudes toward the element body through the cover layer and is physically and electrically connected to the internal conductor. The conductor layer is electrically connected to the internal conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji TOZAWA, Masashi SHIMOYASU, Akihiko OIDE, Daiki KATO, Makoto YOSHINO, Takashi ENDO, Takuya KODAMA, Akira AKASAKA, Ken ITOH
  • Publication number: 20240085847
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image holding bodies that are provided for respective colors of toners and hold toner images having the respective colors, an intermediate transfer body onto which the toner images having the respective colors held by the plural image holding bodies are transferred, a waste toner collection unit that collects toners remaining on the intermediate transfer body as a waste toner in a case where the toner images having the respective colors transferred onto the intermediate transfer body are transferred onto a recording material, a waste toner developing unit that uses the waste toner collected by the waste toner collection unit to develop a toner image on an image holding body of the plural image holding bodies or the other image holding body of the plural image holding bodies, and a control unit that performs a control to cause the waste toner developing unit to develop the toner image in a case where a predetermined condition about a ratio of a waste toner having each
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Ryo WAKAMATSU, Kenta TSUKAHIRA, Kenji SUZUKI, Kazutaka SHIBANO, Daiki KATO, Naoyuki KURITA
  • Publication number: 20240083346
    Abstract: A gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple slices, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple slices. An illumination apparatus emits illumination light. A camera controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination apparatus and an exposure timing of an image sensor so as to generate slice images from a near slice to a farther slice. An arithmetic processing device judges whether a road surface appears for each of the slice images generated in sequence. Processing for a row judged to include a road surface in a given slice is simplified at the time of sensing of a slice farther than the given slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji ITABA, Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Daiki KATO, Shun TANEMOTO, Masatoshi SUZUKI, Keita KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240067094
    Abstract: A gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple ranges, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple ranges. A controller is configured to generate an emission control signal and an exposure control signal. An illumination apparatus emits probe light according to the emission control signal during normal imaging. An image sensor performs exposure according to the exposure control signal. A calibration light source emits calibration light to the image sensor according to the emission control signal during calibration. The controller sweeps a time difference between the emission control signal and the exposure control signal, and monitors a change in a pixel value of the image sensor during the calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi HOSHI, Koji ITABA, Daiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240026503
    Abstract: Along with higher performance of products, materials are also required to achieve both a high strength and favorable magnetic properties according to applications of products. Therefore, the present invention provides an Fe—Co-based alloy bar which enables both a high strength and favorable magnetic properties to be achieved. An Fe—Co-based alloy bar contains 30% to 80% of crystal grains having a grain orientation spread (GOS) value of 0.5° or more in terms of an area ratio, and having an average crystal grain size number of more than 8.5 and 12.0 or less. The Fe—Co-based alloy bar of the present invention has a high 0.2% yield strength after magnetic annealing so that it can support various high-strength applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Hidetaka Yakabe, Masaru Fujiyoshi, Shujiroh Uesaka, Shinsuke Sasabe
  • Publication number: 20240025873
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing a ketone derivative, and more specifically, a method for producing a ketone derivative (I) represented by formula (I), including mixing a thioester derivative (II) represented by formula (II), a Grignard reagent (III) represented by formula (III) and a copper salt to form a ketone derivative (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masahiko SEKI, Kazushi MASHIMA, Hayato TSURUGI, Daiki KATO, Tomoya MURASE, Jalindar Bhausaheb TALODE
  • Publication number: 20230341749
    Abstract: A gating camera 20 divides a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges. An illumination device 22 radiates probe light L1. An image sensor 24 outputs a compressed image IMG_COMP obtained by compressing image information related to, among a plurality of lines constituting a raw image IMG_RAW obtained as a result of an exposure, an invalid line that does not contain a target. A camera controller 26 controls a light emission timing of the illumination device 22 and an exposure timing of the image sensor 24. An image processing device 28 receives the compressed image IMG_COMP from the image sensor 24, and decompresses a slice image IMG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Daiki KATO, Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Koji ITABA, Shun TANEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230312042
    Abstract: An electric device for a human-powered vehicle comprises an electrical contact. The electrical contact has a first state where the electrical contact receives electricity from a power supply and a second state where the electrical contact receives information from an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Takaya MASUDA, Daiki KATO, Tomohiro TAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230317351
    Abstract: An electronic component has an element body; and an external electrode having a main body portion covering at least the second surface and a first wrapping-around portion wrapping around the third surface in the element body. The wrapping-around portion of the external electrode has a first part having a first distance, a second part having a second distance, a third part having a third distance, a fourth part having a fourth distance, and a fifth part having a fifth distance in the second direction in order from one side to the other side in the first direction. The second distance is longer than the first distance and the third distance. The fourth distance is longer than the third distance and the fifth distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi SHIMOYASU, Yoji TOZAWA, Akihiko OIDE, Daiki KATO, Midori KISHIMOTO, Satoshi TAKASU, Yo SAITO, Rui TAKAHASHI, Kenta SASAKI, Makoto YOSHINO, Kazuhiro EBINA