Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Ito

Hiroaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20260266619
    Abstract: A vehicle information collection system includes a collection condition acquisition unit (201) acquiring conditions for verifying an update model, an external environment acquisition unit (202) acquiring external travelling environmental information, a verification location setting unit (203) setting, as a destination, a verification location on the basis of respective information of the external environment acquisition unit (202) and the collection condition acquisition unit (201), a notification unit (204) notifying a vehicle operator of the verification location, a response receiving unit (205) receiving operator's response of permission for or refusal of movement to the verification location, and a guidance control unit (206) guiding a vehicle to the verification location according to the response of the permission and information on the verification location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KISHIMOTO, Hiroaki ITO, Sakie KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20260268143
    Abstract: A computation device comprising an inference unit that uses an inference model, which is a neural network model, and outputs an inference result corresponding to input data, and an updating unit that updates a weight of the inference model based on the inference result, and spatial information indicating at least a part of an area in the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Inventors: Wakako NAKANO, Riu HIRAI, Hiroaki ITO, Masashi TAKADA
  • Patent number: 12725598
    Abstract: A masking technology is provided for curbing discomfort at the time of a change in a masking sound by presenting a video corresponding to the masking sound at the time of the change in the masking sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Noguchi, Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12725600
    Abstract: A noise suppression technique which allows a user to recognize that a specific event occurs when the event that the user needs to be aware of occurs even during a process of suppressing noise around the user is provided. When the noise around the user includes a sound originating from a predetermined event (hereinafter referred to as “event sound”), a noise suppression device allows a user to recognize that the event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Murata, Yohei Wakisaka, Noriyoshi Kamado, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12717544
    Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce power consumption in the operation based upon a recognition device (1000) including, in a neural network of multiple layers that output type of an object and existing coordinates based on external environment information, a selector (103) that selects input data to convolution operation units (107-1 to L) from external environment information; convolution operation units (107-1 to L) configured by a plurality of layers connected in cascade; and a parameter storage unit (109) that stores a weight parameter of each layer, a cumulative addition count of each layer, and an omitting bit number of each layer. The recognition device includes operation stop signal generation units (116-1 to L) that transmit one or more stop signals for stopping some or all of the computing units of the convolution operation units (107-1 to L) to the convolution operation units (107-1 to L) for each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kishimoto, Goichi Ono, Akira Kitayama, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12720256
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for providing feedback on the degree of utterance volume to an utterer. The utterance feedback device includes: an utterance volume evaluation unit that generates an evaluation value for a volume of an utterance voice (referred to as utterance volume evaluation value, hereinafter) from a first sound collection signal that is output by a first microphone installed near an utterer to collect an utterance voice, which is a voice of the utterer, and a second sound collection signal that is output by a second microphone installed at a position farther away from the utterer than the first microphone to collect the utterance voice; and a feedback sound signal generation unit that generates a signal for emitting, from a speaker, a feedback sound indicating the degree of the volume of the utterance voice to the utterer (hereinafter referred to as a feedback sound signal), from the first sound collection signal, by using a feedback gain corresponding to the utterance volume evaluation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Noguchi, Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20260238910
    Abstract: A filter information determination device includes: a filter information storage unit configured to store multiple pieces of filter information for performing filter processing on a signal to be reproduced by a wearable device that reproduces a sound without completely blocking external ear canal; a filter processing unit configured to perform filter processing on a predetermined signal using filter information from the multiple pieces of filter information read from the filter information storage unit to generate a filtered signal; and a filter information selection unit configured to select filter information from the multiple pieces of filter information based on a localization evaluation of sound based on the filtered signal by a user who listens to the sound based on the filtered signal radiated by the wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Hironobu CHIBA, Tatsuya KAKO, Hiroaki ITO, Kenichi NOGUCHI, Shihori KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20260229040
    Abstract: This image recognition device, which performs object detection by using an image recognition program with respect to an input image, comprises: a storage unit that stores a current program, which is a conventional image recognition program, and a new program, which is a new image recognition program; a difference extraction unit that extracts a detection difference which is a difference between an object detection result of the current program and an image recognition result of the new program with respect to the same input image; a transmission determination unit that determines a saving need as to whether or not to save the input image on the basis of a status of appearance of the detection difference; and a saving unit that outputs the input image that the transmission determination unit has determined to save to the outside of the image recognition device, or that saves the input image that the transmission determination unit has determined to save in the image recognition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Akira KITAYAMA, Goichi ONO, Hiroaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20260204271
    Abstract: Provided is a playback sound correction apparatus that corrects a playback sound of an open-ear earphone including a speaker and a microphone, the apparatus including: a characteristics measuring sound playback unit configured to play back a characteristics measuring sound from the speaker; a transfer function calculation unit configured to calculate a transfer function from the speaker to the microphone based on a recorded sound of the microphone and the characteristics measuring sound; a correction filter calculation unit configured to calculate an inverse filter of the transfer function as a correction filter; and a playback sound correction unit configured to correct the playback sound with the correction filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya KAKO, Shihori KOZUKA, Hironobu CHIBA, Hiroaki ITO, Kenichi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20260196532
    Abstract: A gasket molding method for molding a gasket on a workpiece includes, in the stated order: an application step of applying an active energy ray curable liquid having a structural viscosity ratio of 1.5 or more and 4.0 or less into a cavity of a molding die; a bonding step of bonding the molding die coated with the active energy ray curable liquid and the workpiece to each other; a curing step of curing the applied active energy ray curable liquid by irradiation with an active energy ray; and a mold release step of pulling off the cured active energy ray curable liquid from the molding die together with the workpiece, in which the application step includes an overlapping region of application trajectories. Accordingly, there is provided a gasket molding method by which mixing of air bubbles in an overlapping region of application trajectories is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Inventors: Nao SUZUKI, Masayuki TANAKA, Hiroaki ITO, Takuma KADO, Toshiyuki TAKAHASHI, Shinpei HASHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20260179633
    Abstract: A noise suppression technique which operates stably even when a reference microphone or an error microphone picks up sound other than noise assumed to occur around a user is provided. A noise suppression device suppresses a noise suppression function for sounds other than noise expected to occur around the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITO, Yohei WAKISAKA, Noriyoshi KAMADO, Shin MURATA
  • Patent number: 12635327
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first side and a second side adjoining the first side, a plurality of light emitters located on the substrate, a plurality of emission control signal lines located on the substrate to control an emission state or a non-emission state of the plurality of light emitters, and a plurality of connection pads located at an edge adjacent to the first side of the substrate and at an edge adjacent to the second side of the substrate. The plurality of connection pads is connected to the plurality of emission control signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12635249
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a display on the first surface, a first wiring pad located on the second surface and electrically connected to the display, an external connection terminal on the second surface, connection wiring located on the second surface and electrically connecting the first wiring pad and the external connection terminal, and a dummy conductor being a protrusion on the second surface. The protrusion overlaps none of the first wiring pad, the external connection terminal, and the connection wiring in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Haraguchi, Hiroaki Ito, Nobuyuki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20260097762
    Abstract: A travel assistance device according to the present invention comprises: a region extraction unit (11) that extracts a specific region that includes traffic participants around a host vehicle from image information of sensor data; a risk derivation unit (15) that derives the degree of risk for safe travel of the host vehicle in relation to the traffic participants in the extracted specific region; a priority-setting unit (16) that sets the processing priority of the specific region according to the degree of risk; a processing-load-setting unit (18) that sets the processing load of information of the specific region according to the processing priority; and a recognition-processing unit (19) that performs traffic participant recognition on the basis of processing load information from the processing-load-setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITO, Tadashi KISHIMOTO, Sakie KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 12598808
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first surface, a side surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a pixel unit located on the first surface and including a light emitter, a first connection pad adjacent to an edge on the first surface and electrically connected to the pixel unit, a second connection pad adjacent to the edge on the second surface, and a side wire extending from the first surface through the side surface to the second surface and connecting the first connection pad and the second connection pad. The first connection pad and the second connection pad have different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Nobuyuki Hasegawa, Fumiaki Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20260086916
    Abstract: A software verification system and the like that can facilitate improvement of software using sensor data of a vehicle as an input are provided. The software verification system detects (performance determining unit 118) a degradation of a new version of control software using, first information that is an output of a current version of control software used for control of a vehicle using, as an input, sensor data from a sensor mounted on the vehicle, second information that is an output of the new version of control software not used for the control of the vehicle using, as an input, the sensor data, and third information relating to the control of the vehicle other than the first and second information; and verifies the new version of control software by using the sensor data when the degradation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Hiroki OMATSU, Satoshi OTSUKA, Kentaro YOSHIMURA, Masashi MIZOGUCHI, Koji MAEDA, Masakazu IKEDA, Hiroaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20260032402
    Abstract: A sound propagation characteristics correction apparatus includes: a pseudo inverse filter generation unit that generates a pseudo inverse filter by a function that smooths sound propagation characteristics from a speaker driver of a wearable open-ear speaker to an ear canal entrance; and an acoustic signal correction unit that corrects an acoustic signal on the basis of the pseudo inverse filter and transmits the corrected acoustic signal to the wearable open-ear speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shihori KOZUKA, Hiroaki ITO, Kenichi NOGUCHI, Tatsuya KAKO, Hironobu CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20260018161
    Abstract: A channel in which an utterance of a keyword is included is selected from acoustic signals of multiple channels. An addition unit 11 adds all channels of input voice signals of multiple channels to generate a composite voice signal of one channel. A keyword detection unit 12 generates a keyword detection result indicating a result of detecting an utterance of a predetermined keyword from a composite voice signal. A power calculation unit 13 calculates powers of channels based on input voice signals. A delay unit 14 delays the powers of the channels. When the keyword detection result indicates that the keyword was detected, a maximum power detection unit 15 selects, as an output channel, a channel having the maximum power among the powers of the channels of the input voice signals. A channel selection unit 16 selects the voice signal of the output channel from the input voice signals and outputs the selected voice signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2025
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Applicant: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Shoichiro SAITO, Hiroaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20260000674
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel therapeutic or prophylactic agent for psoriasis. This therapeutic or prophylactic agent for psoriasis contains a serotonin 4 receptor agonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: GEXVal Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo HIRASE, Hiroaki ITO, Yuka YASUNAGA
  • Patent number: 12444403
    Abstract: A channel in which an utterance of a keyword is included is selected from acoustic signals of multiple channels. An addition unit 11 adds all channels of input voice signals of multiple channels to generate a composite voice signal of one channel. A keyword detection unit 12 generates a keyword detection result indicating a result of detecting an utterance of a predetermined keyword from a composite voice signal. A power calculation unit 13 calculates powers of channels based on input voice signals. A delay unit 14 delays the powers of the channels. When the keyword detection result indicates that the keyword was detected, a maximum power detection unit 15 selects, as an output channel, a channel having the maximum power among the powers of the channels of the input voice signals. A channel selection unit 16 selects the voice signal of the output channel from the input voice signals and outputs the selected voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: NTT, INC.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Shoichiro Saito, Hiroaki Ito