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: 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
  • Patent number: 12417720
    Abstract: A multi-display includes a first display device and a second display device. The first display device includes a first substrate including a first display surface and a first side surface continuous with the first display surface, a first display portion on the first display surface, and a first side wiring extending from the first side surface to the first display surface. The second display device includes a second substrate including a second display surface and a second side surface continuous with the second display surface, a second display portion on the second display surface, and a second side wiring extending from the second side surface to the second display surface. The first side surface and the second side surface are adjacent to and face each other. The first side wiring and the second side wiring are located without facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Katsumi Aoki
  • Patent number: 12412097
    Abstract: Processing time of a neural network is shortened, and the number of operations of the neural network is reduced such that a plurality of calculators can be effectively used. A neural network reduction device (100) that reduces the number of operations of a neural network by an operation device (140) including a plurality of calculators by reducing the neural network, the neural network reduction device including: a calculator allocation unit (102) that sets the number of calculators allocated to calculation processing of the neural network; a number-of-operations setting unit (103) that sets the number of operations of a reduced neural network based on the number of allocated calculators; and a neural network reduction unit (104) that reduces the neural network such that the number of operations of the neural network by the operation device (140) is equal to the number of operations set by the number-of-operations setting unit (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Goichi Ono, Riu Hirai
  • Publication number: 20250264106
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotary shaft, a compression part, a motor, an inverter that has an inverter circuit, and a housing. The housing includes a motor housing having a peripheral wall extending in an axial direction of the rotary shaft and a bottom wall, an inverter housing that is provided on the peripheral wall, a compression part housing, a shaft support member that has an insertion hole. The inverter housing has an extending portion extending in the axial direction away from the peripheral wall and having a high voltage connector and a low voltage connector. The high voltage connector and the low voltage connector are overlapped with the bottom wall as viewed in the axial direction and disposed within a width of the extending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Junya Yano, Yusuke Kinoshita, Harutaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250265827
    Abstract: An image recognition system according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a discrepancy information extraction unit that receives each of inference results of old and new machine learning models for the same input image, and outputs, when there is a discrepancy area in the two inference results, image information of the discrepancy area in the input image and information indicating presence or absence of detection of a point of interest in the discrepancy area by the new machine learning model; an object presence/absence determination unit that determines whether a point of interest is included in the image information of the discrepancy area and outputs a determination result; and a performance degradation determination unit that determines performance degradation of the new machine learning model compared with the current machine learning model based on the information indicating the presence or absence of detection of a point of interest in the discrepancy area by the new machine learning mode
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Akira KITAYAMA, Goichi ONO, Hiroaki ITO
  • Patent number: 12378960
    Abstract: An electric compressor comprising: a conductive pin; an inverter terminal; and an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes: a bus bar; a first terminal and a second terminal at opposite ends of the bus bar; and an accommodation case fixed to a motor housing. The first terminal is connected to the conductive pin outside the motor housing. The second terminal is inserted into an inverter housing. The accommodation case has a second through hole through which the conductive pin is inserted toward the first terminal and accommodates the bus bar such that the second terminal is disposed outside the accommodation case. A junction terminal connects the inverter terminal and the second terminal inside the inverter housing. The first terminal and the second terminal are respectively fitted into the conductive pin and the junction terminal by movement of the electrical connector in an axial direction of a rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yusuke Iwase, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12371042
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus configured to provide driving assistance regarding a traffic light to a driver of a host vehicle when the traffic light in front of the host vehicle is in a passage prohibited state, wherein the driving assistance apparatus determines whether the driver is in a careless driving state, and suppresses driving assistance regarding the traffic light when the driver is determined to be in the careless driving state even when the traffic light in front of the host vehicle is in the passage prohibited state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Yoshitaka Kijima
  • Patent number: 12354620
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes processing circuitry configured to receive an input of extraction target information indicating which audio class of an audio signal is to be extracted from a mixture audio signal constituted by a mixture of audio signals of a plurality of audio classes, and output a result of extracting the audio signal of the audio class indicated by the extraction target information from the mixture audio signal, with a neural network by using a feature value of the mixture audio signal and the extraction target information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Yuma Koizumi, Hiroaki Ito, Keisuke Kinoshita, Shoko Araki
  • Publication number: 20250207586
    Abstract: An electric compressor comprising: a conductive pin; an inverter terminal; and an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes: a bus bar; a first terminal and a second terminal at opposite ends of the bus bar; and an accommodation case fixed to a motor housing. The first terminal is connected to the conductive pin outside the motor housing. The second terminal is inserted into an inverter housing. The accommodation case has a second through hole through which the conductive pin is inserted toward the first terminal and accommodates the bus bar such that the second terminal is disposed outside the accommodation case. A junction terminal connects the inverter terminal and the second terminal inside the inverter housing. The first terminal and the second terminal are respectively fitted into the conductive pin and the junction terminal by movement of the electrical connector in an axial direction of a rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yusuke IWASE, Hiroaki Ito