Patents by Inventor Futoshi Yamamoto

Futoshi Yamamoto 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: 20230296384
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a route information acquisition unit configured to acquire route information that is information on a route along which a user performs at least two types of moving with different moving speeds, and a section setting unit configured to set, on the route based on the acquired route information, a first section as a section in which the user performs first moving at a first speed and a second section as a section in which the user performs second moving at a second speed lower than the first speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230240559
    Abstract: An information processing method causes a computer to: execute a first event for evaluating a first activity state of a subject when the subject is performing a first activity; determine whether the subject receives the evaluation in the first event; and execute a second event for evaluating a second activity state different from the first activity state, the second activity state being an activity state of the subject when the subject is performing a second activity, at least on a condition that it is determined that the subject receives the evaluation in the first event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Reina FUKUSHIMA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220203170
    Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor obtains index information representing a lapse situation after a start of movement. The processor obtains either of a time elapsed from the start of movement and a distance passing from a start point of movement. The processor controls, by using either of the elapsed time and the passing distance, to obtain the index information to, as either of a lapse of time from the start of movement and the distance passing from the start point of movement increases, decrease a frequency of obtainment of the index information at the start of movement or from the start point of movement. The processor records the obtained index information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi NISHIZAKA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro OHSAWA
  • Publication number: 20220161095
    Abstract: A running method determination device includes at least one processor that executes a program stored in at least one memory. The at least one processor acquires motion data at a time of running of a user, calculates, based on acceleration data in multiple axial directions included in the acquired motion data, a sum of acceleration vectors in the multiple axial directions as a resultant vector, and determines a type of a running method of the user using at least an angle of the calculated resultant vector as a standard of determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi NISHIZAKA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Tsutomu HIROYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220072401
    Abstract: A training determination device includes: a determination unit configured to determine a training type, based on exercise data obtained when a user has performed a running training; a storage unit configured to store training history information in which the training type determined by the determination unit is associated with time information for performed training and a moving distance during the performed training; a calculation unit configured to perform at least two types of different calculation for a cumulative total of the moving distance for each training type, based on the training history information stored in the storage unit; and a display controller configured to display an image indicating the cumulative total of the moving distance for each training type calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi NISHIZAKA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10783376
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor which executes: a video data acquisition process of acquiring data on a video of at least one moving object as video data; a measurement information data acquisition process of acquiring data representing measurement information on the object as measurement information data; an object specifying process of specifying the object corresponding to the measurement information data included in the video, as an analysis target; a color specifying process of specifying a color of the analysis target as an object color; and a determination process of determining the object color specified by the color specifying process as a display color to be displayed when the measurement information data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10747311
    Abstract: A sound collecting device including: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information of user's eyes; a microphone; a processor configured to control the microphone so as to achieve sensitivity in the line-of-sight direction of the eyes higher than in other directions on the basis of the line-of-sight information detected by the line-of-sight detector; and an attachment portion for attaching the line-of-sight detector and the microphone on a head portion or an ear portion, wherein the microphone is provided on each of the two positions of the attachment portion, and the processor controls a plurality of the microphones on the basis of the line-of-sight information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ura, Futoshi Yamamoto, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10596415
    Abstract: A running analysis device includes a processor and a storage. In the storage, a program to be executed by the processor is stored. The processor performs an analysis process by which running of a user is analyzed using sensor data output from a sensor attached to the user. The analysis process includes an indicator identifying process of identifying, in a swing phase in a running cycle, a period that serves as an indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Yamamoto, Yuji Otani
  • Patent number: 10511398
    Abstract: An electronic device 10 that are wirelessly connected to other electronic devices within a range of a limited communication distance, and the device has a controller CNT that configured to determine at least one of whether or not there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within a predetermined range and whether or not a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, and to transmit, if it is determined that there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within the predetermined range, or that a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, a request to the plurality of electronic devices to generate rhythm signals at a same tempo to encourage improvement in cooperation among the plurality of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10334160
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, image playback apparatus includes: an image acquisition device configured to acquire, in association with a plurality of sensing functions capable of being activated or inactivated, photography image information automatically photographed under a predetermined photography condition, based on a sensing result of the activated sensing function, the image acquisition device being configured to acquire the photography image information together with trigger information indicative of the photography condition or the sensing function used under the photography condition; and a display device configured to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190095718
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor which executes: a video data acquisition process of acquiring data on a video of at least one moving object as video data; a measurement information data acquisition process of acquiring data representing measurement information on the object as measurement information data; an object specifying process of specifying the object corresponding to the measurement information data included in the video, as an analysis target; a color specifying process of specifying a color of the analysis target as an object color; and a determination process of determining the object color specified by the color specifying process as a display color to be displayed when the measurement information data is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Futoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190079580
    Abstract: A sound collecting device including: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information of user's eyes; a microphone; a processor configured to control the microphone so as to achieve sensitivity in the line-of-sight direction of the eyes higher than in other directions on the basis of the line-of-sight information detected by the line-of-sight detector; and an attachment portion for attaching the line-of-sight detector and the microphone on a head portion or an ear portion, wherein the microphone is provided on each of the two positions of the attachment portion, and the processor controls a plurality of the microphones on the basis of the line-of-sight information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo URA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180367231
    Abstract: An electronic device 10 that are wirelessly connected to other electronic devices within a range of a limited communication distance, and the device has a controller CNT that configured to determine at least one of whether or not there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within a predetermined range and whether or not a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, and to transmit, if it is determined that there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within the predetermined range, or that a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, a request to the plurality of electronic devices to generate rhythm signals at a same tempo to encourage improvement in cooperation among the plurality of members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180147446
    Abstract: A running analysis device includes a processor and a storage. In the storage, a program to be executed by the processor is stored. The processor performs an analysis process by which running of a user is analyzed using sensor data output from a sensor attached to the user. The analysis process includes an indicator identifying process of identifying, in a swing phase in a running cycle, a period that serves as an indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Yuji OTANI
  • Publication number: 20180091731
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, image playback apparatus includes: an image acquisition device configured to acquire, in association with a plurality of sensing functions capable of being activated or inactivated, photography image information automatically photographed under a predetermined photography condition, based on a sensing result of the activated sensing function, the image acquisition device being configured to acquire the photography image information together with trigger information indicative of the photography condition or the sensing function used under the photography condition; and a display device configured to display an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140079289
    Abstract: An information generation apparatus includes a specification unit that specifies a plurality of points in time of a sequence of motions of a person; and a generation unit that generates information relating to a rhythm of the sequence of motions, based on the plurality of points in time specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Osamu NOJIMA
  • Patent number: 8669121
    Abstract: A method for forming a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal in a desired region of a ferroelectric substrate includes the steps of forming, for the desired region of the surface of the ferroelectric substrate, an electrode pattern or a mask pattern composed of aggregates of micropatterns, and then applying a given voltage into the desired region. The configuration of the micropatterns can be a stripe-shaped pattern, an ellipse-shaped pattern, a hexagon-shaped pattern, a network pattern, or a double cross shaped pattern. The method can further include the steps of generating many nucleuses by using the electrode pattern or the mask pattern composed of the aggregates of micropatterns, forming another electrode pattern or another mask pattern corresponding to the desired region, and then applying a given voltage into the desired region to generate a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal around the nucleuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Futoshi Yamamoto, Junichiro Ichikawa, Satoshi Oikawa, Sunao Kurimura, Kenji Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8644647
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an optical control device capable of realizing speed matching between a microwave and a light wave or impedance matching of microwaves and of reducing a driving voltage. An optical control device including a thin plate 1 (11) which has an electro-optical effect and has a thickness of 10 ?m or less, an optical waveguide 2 formed in the thin plate, and control electrodes for controlling light passing through the optical waveguide is characterized in that the control electrodes are configured to include a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to interpose the thin plate therebetween, the first electrode has a coplanar type electrode including at least a signal electrode 4 and a ground electrode 5, and the second electrode has at least a ground electrode 54 (55, 56) and is configured to apply an electric field to the optical waveguide in cooperation with the signal electrode of the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Ichikawa, Futoshi Yamamoto, Yuhki Kinpara, Katsutoshi Kondou, Satoshi Oikawa
  • Patent number: 8524509
    Abstract: A method for forming a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal, including the steps of forming a concave portion on a top face of a ferroelectric substrate or a bottom face of a ferroelectric substrate, and applying an electric field into the substrate, wherein a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal is formed at least in one portion of a region of the substrate with the concave portion, and wherein the shape of the concave portion is configured such that the width of the concave portion gets narrower gradually toward the inside of the substrate. The method may further include the steps of, after the reversal, making into almost a flat-plane the top or bottom face having the concave portion, and then, forming a new concave portion in another region and applying an electric field to form another reversal in one portion of the region of the substrate having the new concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Futoshi Yamamoto, Junichiro Ichikawa, Satoshi Oikawa, Sunao Kurimura, Kenji Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8293543
    Abstract: A method for forming a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal includes the steps of forming a convexo-concave structure on a top face of a ferroelectric substrate firstly, and then forming a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization region on the substrate including one portion of a convex portion, with a concave portion being formed on the bottom face of the substrate within a region where a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal is to be formed and the convex portion is formed, and then applying an electric field into the substrate. The depth of the concave portion on the bottom face of the substrate may be greater than the height of the convex portion on the top face of the substrate. The width of the concave portion on the bottom face of the substrate may be wider than width of said convex portion on the top face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Futoshi Yamamoto, Junichiro Ichikawa, Satoshi Oikawa, Sunao Kurimura, Kenji Kitamura