Patents by Inventor Hideaki Nii
Hideaki Nii 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).
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Patent number: 11463128Abstract: An information processing device to enable a user to create a program with visual operations, and to enable the stable implementation of many functions with a small number of devices. In a basic core, a pairing unit executes pairing with a user terminal that executes control for causing functional modules, to exhibit prescribed functions. A transmission information generation unit generates transmission information including: prescribed information to be used by the functional modules, to exhibit the prescribed functions or while exhibiting the prescribed functions on the basis of the control by the user terminal; and information indicating a transmission destination, which is one of the functional modules. A connection unit executes control to superimpose the transmission information on a signal for supplying power to the functional modules in the form of electric current and to transmit the signal to the functional modules.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: VIVIWARE JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Nii, Shozaburo Shimada, Kazutoshi Kashimoto, Vijay Siddharth Pillai, Shintaro Itamoto
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Publication number: 20220026868Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a technology with which, when a hardware device is operated on the basis of a control program created by a program creation assistance device, an operation at a desirable response speed as, for example, a toy is possible, and an actual device of the hardware device can be independently driven. Provided is an information processing system comprising: a user terminal which assists with the creation of a control program by a user command; basic cores comprising a function for communicating with each of function modules and a function for controlling each of the function modules on the basis of the control program; and the function modules comprising a function for communicating with the basic core and a function for exercising a prescribed function. A control sending unit of the user terminal sends at least a portion of the control program to at least one of one or more of the basic cores.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Shozaburo SHIMADA, Shota KAGAMI, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Shintaro ITAMOTO, Tomohiro HAYASHI, Hideaki NII
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Patent number: 11205960Abstract: The present invention improves power supply efficiency during power line communication. This electronic device, comprising at least a portion of a constant current circuit connected to a predetermined load, has a circuit unit that controls the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load on the basis of a state related to the predetermined load. The circuit unit has: a path (a path from end to end via a constant voltage diode) in which at least a portion of the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load is generated when a constant current flowing in the constant current circuit flows therein; and a field effect transistor serving as a switch unit for switching between short-circuiting the path and undoing the same. A control unit controls the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load by switching the state of the switch unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: VIVIWARE JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Nii, Shozaburo Shimada
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Publication number: 20210194361Abstract: The present invention improves power supply efficiency during power line communication. This electronic device, comprising at least a portion of a constant current circuit connected to a predetermined load, has a circuit unit that controls the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load on the basis of a state related to the predetermined load. The circuit unit has: a path (a path from end to end via a constant voltage diode) in which at least a portion of the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load is generated when a constant current flowing in the constant current circuit flows therein; and a field effect transistor serving as a switch unit for switching between short-circuiting the path and undoing the same. A control unit controls the voltage to be applied to the predetermined load by switching the state of the switch unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Hideaki NII, Shozaburo SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20210152214Abstract: An information processing device to enable a user to create a program with visual operations, and to enable the stable implementation of many functions with a small number of devices. In a basic core, a pairing unit executes pairing with a user terminal that executes control for causing functional modules, to exhibit prescribed functions. A transmission information generation unit generates transmission information including: prescribed information to be used by the functional modules, to exhibit the prescribed functions or while exhibiting the prescribed functions on the basis of the control by the user terminal; and information indicating a transmission destination, which is one of the functional modules. A connection unit executes control to superimpose the transmissio information on a signal for supplying power to the functional modules in the form of electric current and to transmit the signal to the functional modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Hideaki NII, Shozaburo SHIMADA, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Vijay Siddharth PILLAI, Shintaro ITAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210127247Abstract: The present invention enables determination of a pairing partner from among a plurality of devices. In response to acquisition of individual identification information enabling identification of one peripheral terminal, from among one or more peripheral terminals, a pairing unit of a central terminal starts a process (scanning) for acquiring an advertising packet, which is information transmitted from the one peripheral terminal and which is necessary for pairing, and executes pairing with the peripheral terminal by using the acquired advertising packet. In addition, a pairing unit of the peripheral terminal executes control for transmitting the advertising packet in response to acquisition of individual identification information by the central terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Shozaburo SHIMADA, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Siddharth Vijay PILLAI, Shintaro ITAMOTO, Hideaki NII, Masatoshi IMAI, Shota KAGAMI
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Patent number: 10037083Abstract: An electronic device and method is disclosed. The electronic device includes a storage module, a recognition module, and a control module. The storage module is configured to store a first and second movement of one or more fingers of a user, and a first and second process. The first movement is different from the second movement. The first process comprises executing an application. The second process is configured to notify information related to the first process. The recognition module is configured to recognize a gesture of one or more fingers as the first movement or the second movement. The control module configured to perform the first process when the gesture is recognized as the first movement. The control module is further configured to perform the second process when the gesture is recognized as the second movement.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideaki Nii
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Patent number: 9463267Abstract: A human-computer interface device comprising an array of elements wherein each element is pivotally coupled to an adjacent first element by a first pivotal coupling and to an adjacent second element by a second pivotal coupling, the first pivotal coupling being operable to pivot about an axis which is substantially orthogonal to an axis about which the second pivotal coupling is operable to pivot.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREInventors: Yuichiro Katsumoto, Hideaki Nii, Masahiko Inakage
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Publication number: 20150346831Abstract: An electronic device and method is disclosed. The electronic device includes a storage module, a recognition module, and a control module. The storage module is configured to store a first and second movement of one or more fingers of a user, and a first and second process. The first movement is different from the second movement. The first process comprises executing an application. The second process is configured to notify information related to the first process. The recognition module is configured to recognize a gesture of one or more fingers as the first movement or the second movement. The control module configured to perform the first process when the gesture is recognized as the first movement. The control module is further configured to perform the second process when the gesture is recognized as the second movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventor: Hideaki NII
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Patent number: 9026178Abstract: A method for operating a mobile terminal device comprising at least two displays is disclosed. Information of a first group on a first display module is displayed, if only a first display module is externally exposed. Information of a second group different from the first group on the first display module and a second display module is displayed, if both the first display module and the second display module are externally exposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hideaki Nii
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Publication number: 20140268529Abstract: A human-computer interface device comprising an array of elements wherein each element is pivotally coupled to an adjacent first element by a first pivotal coupling and to an adjacent second element by a second pivotal coupling, the first pivotal coupling being operable to pivot about an axis which is substantially orthogonal to an axis about which the second pivotal coupling is operable to pivot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Yuichiro Katsumoto, Hideaki Nii, Masahiko Inakage
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Patent number: 8009192Abstract: An optical receiver is arranged at a location in a scene. The optical receiver includes a photo sensor configured to detect spatio-temporal modulated optical signals directed at the scene from a set of spatially dispersed optical transmitters, and to convert the optical signals from each of the optical transmitters to a corresponding electronic signal. The electronic signals can be analyzed to determine geometric properties of the location in the scene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Hideaki Nii, Jay W. Summet, Yong Zhao, Paul H. Dietz, Jonathan Westhues, Michael Noland, Erich Bruns, Shree Nayar, Vlad Branzoi
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Publication number: 20110159928Abstract: A method for operating a mobile terminal device comprising at least two displays is disclosed. Information of a first group on a first display module is displayed, if only a first display module is externally exposed. Information of a second group different from the first group on the first display module and a second display module is displayed, if both the first display module and the second display module are externally exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideaki NII
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Publication number: 20080267450Abstract: The present invention has a simpler structure than before and is designed to precisely detect the position of a real environment's target object on a screen. The present invention generates a special marker image MKZ including a plurality of areas whose brightness levels gradually change in X and Y directions, displays the special marker image MKZ on the screen of a liquid crystal display 2 such that the special marker image MKZ faces an automobile-shaped robot 3, detects, by using sensors SR1 to SR4 provided on the automobile-shaped robot 3 for detecting the change of brightness level of position tracking areas PD1A, PD2A, PD3 and PD4 of the special marker image MKZ in the X and Y directions, the change of brightness level, and then detects the position of the automobile-shaped robot 3 on the screen of the liquid crystal display 2 by calculating, based on the change of brightness level, the change of relative coordinate value between the special marker image MKZ and the automobile shaped robot 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Maki Sugimoto, Akihiro Nakamura, Hideaki Nii, Masahiko Inami
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Publication number: 20070268481Abstract: A system measures reflectance in a scene. A first optical sensor is configured to measure incident energy at a location in a scene. A second optical sensor is configured to measure reflected energy from the location in the scene. The incident energy and the reflected energy are analyzed to determine a photometric property at the location of the scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Hideaki Nii, Yong Zhao, Paul H. Dietz, Erich Bruns
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Publication number: 20070268366Abstract: An optical emitter and an optical sensor are arranged at locations in a scene. A physical mask is arranged between the emitter and sensor to modulate directional electromagnetic signals from the emitter spatially. The modulated signals are analyzed to determine geometric properties at the location in the scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Hideaki Nii
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Publication number: 20070268363Abstract: An optical receiver is arranged at a location in a scene. The optical receiver includes a photo sensor configured to detect spatio-temporal modulated optical signals directed at the scene from a set of spatially dispersed optical transmitters, and to convert the optical signals from each of the optical transmitters to a corresponding electronic signal. The electronic signals can be analyzed to determine geometric properties of the location in the scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Hideaki Nii, Jay W. Summet, Yong Zhao, Paul H. Dietz, Jonathan Westhues, Michael Noland, Erich Bruns, Shree Nayar, Vlad Branzoi
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Patent number: 7009249Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a device isolation region for defining a device region on a mono-crystalline semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate formed with a mono-crystalline semiconductor layer through an embedded insulation payer on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. An opening is formed penetrating the device isolation region and the embedded insulation layer and reaching the semiconductor substrate. A polysilicon is deposited on the SOI substrate and within the opening and providing a gate electrode and a substrate electrode of the MIS type field-effect transistor by executing the patterning thereon; and implanting impurities into the gate electrode and the substrate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Hideaki Nii
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Publication number: 20050131617Abstract: A data collecting system includes a data collecting device and plural data processing devices connected to the data collecting device by a cascade connection. For example, each of the data processing devices individually executes an A/D conversion and other data process, and adds data obtained by the data process to a data transmitting signal to transmit it to the subsequent cascade-connection data processing device in sequence. The data processing device at the head of the cascade connection generates the data transmitting signal including a data processing period and a communication period, and transmits it to the subsequent data processing device. Each of the data processing devices executes the data process in the data processing period, and transmits data obtained by the data process to the subsequent data processing device in the communication period on the basis of the data transmitting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TECHEXPERTS INCORPORATONInventors: Hideaki Nii, Ichiro Kawabuchi
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Publication number: 20040159949Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, and an element isolating insulating film provided in the substrate so as to isolate a device region. A first gate insulating film and a second gate insulating film having a film thickness greater than the first gate insulating film are provided on the substrate in the device region. A gate electrode includes a first part extending in a first direction on the first gate insulating film, and a second part extending from the first part in a second direction different from the first direction. A portion of the gate electrode where an internal angle is formed by the first and second parts is provided on the second gate insulating film. Source/drain diffusion layers are formed in the substrate so that a channel layer under the first part of the gate electrode is held between the source/drain diffusion layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventor: Hideaki Nii