Patents by Inventor Hiroki Nakayama

Hiroki Nakayama 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: 20200320996
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200305835
    Abstract: A control device including: a breast thickness acquisition unit that acquires a thickness of a breast in a pressed state by a pressing member; a depth information acquisition unit that, in a case where an ultrasound image of the breast in the pressed state is captured, acquires depth information indicating a depth to which imaging by an ultrasonography apparatus which captures the ultrasound image is possible; a deriving unit that derives imaging information indicating whether or not capture of an ultrasound image having predetermined accuracy or higher is possible by the ultrasonography apparatus on the basis of the thickness of the breast acquired by the breast thickness acquisition unit and the depth information acquired by the depth information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the imaging information derived by the deriving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200305836
    Abstract: An imaging member including: a pressing member that presses a breast of a subject; and an ultrasonography member that has a first surface on which an acoustic matching member having fluidity is provided, and is provided such that a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface is provided on a surface of the pressing member, which is on a side opposite to a surface that comes into contact with the breast, via a coupling material having lower fluidity than the acoustic matching member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200308895
    Abstract: An agent device includes an agent functional controller configured to provide a service including causing an output device to output a response of voice in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle, and a controller configured to permit an operation of a power window of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold value and limit the operation of the power window of the vehicle when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than the first threshold value when the agent functional controller is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki
  • Publication number: 20200302937
    Abstract: In an agent system, a first server device transmits information associated with a speech of a first user acquired from a first terminal device to a second server device, and the second server device transmits information associated with the speech of the first user acquired from the first server device to a second terminal device or an on-vehicle agent device on the basis of existence of a second user recognized by the second terminal device or the on-vehicle agent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Kengo Naiki, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
  • Publication number: 20200286452
    Abstract: There is provided an agent device, including an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a response using a voice, in response to an utterance of an occupant in a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation related to an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit, wherein the display controller is configured to cause the display to display the animation in different types between a case where the animation is displayed in a first display area of the display, and a case where the animation is displayed in a second display area which is different from the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Sawako Furuya
  • Publication number: 20200275902
    Abstract: A radiography system includes a mammography apparatus and a control device including a compression control unit that, in a case of performing continuous imaging in which the simple imaging and the tomosynthesis imaging are continuously performed while the breast being compressed by the mammography apparatus, performs control to cause a compression member to compress the breast at a first force in a first imaging of the simple imaging or the tomosynthesis imaging that is performed first in the continuous imaging, to change a force of the compression member compressing the breast from the first force to a second force lower than the first force after the first imaging, and to cause the compression member to compress the breast at the second force in a second imaging that is performed later.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki INOUE, Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10752512
    Abstract: A general-purpose composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particles capable of producing a dispersion liquid with high productivity while having properties such as good visible light transmittance and shielding light in a near-infrared region, and a composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particle dispersion liquid using the same, wherein a value of an XRD peak top intensity ratio of the composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particles is 0.13 or more when the XRD peak intensity is set to 1, with plane of a silicon powder standard sample (640 c produced by NIST) as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Hiroki Nakayama, Takeshi Chonan
  • Publication number: 20200253572
    Abstract: A radiography system includes: a mammography apparatus that includes a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a compression member which compresses a breast disposed between the radiation source and the radiation detector and captures a radiographic image of the breast in a compressed state using the radiation detector; and a control device including an acquisition unit that acquires region information indicating a region of an object of interest in the breast on the basis of the radiographic image captured by the mammography apparatus and a display control unit that performs control to display the region of the object of interest on the compression member, which continues to compress the breast from the capture of the radiographic image, so as to be recognizable on the basis of the region information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10730272
    Abstract: There is provided a heat-ray shielding film including composite tungsten oxide particles; a thermoplastic resin; and a metal coupling agent, wherein the composite tungsten oxide particles are represented by a general formula MxWOy, where M is one or more elements selected from Cs, Rb, K, Tl, In, Ba, Li, Ca, Sr, Fe, Sn, Al, Cu, and Na, 0.1?x?0.5, and 2.2?y?3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Machida, Hiroki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20200184352
    Abstract: An information output system for leading a person in such a way as to rapidly achieve a predetermined state for investigation of crime using communication means is provided. An information output system 200 includes an identification unit 220, a storage unit 230, and an output unit 250. The identification unit 220 identifies an observed state, based on information indicating a message from a person. The storage unit 230 stores knowledge information to be used for reasoning of a target state being a predetermined state for investigation. The output unit 250 performs reasoning, based on observation information indicating the observed state and the knowledge information, and outputs information indicating a message to be spoken or sent by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10664969
    Abstract: Targeting of a lesion which is performed by a stereoscopic biopsy device or the like is performed simply and highly accurately. Designation of a predetermined position in the stereoscopic image is received to acquire position information when a stereoscopic image is displayed, radiological images of radiographing directions are displayed as two-dimensional images, a mark based on the position information, which is designated in the stereoscopic image, is displayed in the two-dimensional images, designation of a predetermined position in the two-dimensional images is further received to acquire the position information after the mark is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Akira Hasegawa, Harlan Romsdahl
  • Publication number: 20200146645
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes a radiation source driver that moves a radiation source to a plurality of imaging positions including a first imaging position where LE imaging of emitting radiation R with low energy from the radiation source to capture a radiation image is performed, and a second imaging position where the LE imaging and HE imaging of emitting radiation R with high energy to capture a radiation image are performed, and a controller that causes a radiation detector to perform the LE imaging at the first imaging position in a state where the radiation source is moved, and causes the radiation detector to perform the LE imaging and the HE imaging at the second imaging position in a state where the movement of the radiation source is stopped or the radiation source is moved at a moving speed slower than that at the first imaging position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200070126
    Abstract: There are provided an exhaust gas-purifying catalyst composition that can purify hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and the like discharged from an internal combustion engine or the like, and can maintain excellent purification performance particularly under a wide range of conditions from low temperature to high temperature, and a method for producing the same, and an automobile exhaust gas-purifying catalyst. The present invention provides an exhaust gas-purifying catalyst composition for purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and the like in exhaust gas, comprising at least Rh; a complex oxide that is a particular Ce-containing component (A) and/or a particular Zr-containing component (B); and alumina, wherein Rh is supported on alumina together with the complex oxide, an amount of Rh supported is 0.01 to 5 wt % based on a total amount of Rh, the complex oxide, and alumina, and a content of the complex oxide is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HARA, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Makoto NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20200055035
    Abstract: The invention provides a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst effective in the abatement of nitrogen oxides (NOx), the SCR catalyst comprising a metal-promoted molecular sieve promoted with a metal selected from iron, copper, and combinations thereof, wherein the metal is present in an amount of 2.6% by weight or less on an oxide basis based on the total weight of the metal-promoted molecular sieve. A catalyst article, an exhaust gas treatment system method, and a method treating an exhaust gas stream, each comprising the SCR catalyst of the invention, are also provided. The SCR catalyst is particularly useful for treatment of exhaust from a lean burn gasoline engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: BASF Corporation, N. E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaolai Zheng, Mahmuda Choudhury, Patrick Burk, Makoto Nagata, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10562786
    Abstract: A near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body, a near-infrared shielding body, and a near-infrared shielding laminated structure containing composite tungsten oxide that exhibits more excellent near-infrared shielding function than that of a conventional near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body, near-infrared shielding body, and near-infrared shielding laminated structure, and a method for producing the same. Also, a near-infrared shielding material fine particle dispersion body in which near-infrared shielding material fine particles are dispersed in a solid medium. The near-infrared shielding material fine particles are composite tungsten oxide fine particles containing a hexagonal crystal structure, in which a lattice constant of the composite tungsten oxide fine particles is 7.3850 ? or more and 7.4186 ? or less on the a-axis, and 7.5600 ? or more and 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Takeshi Chonan
  • Publication number: 20200042886
    Abstract: An information output system for leading a person in such a way as to rapidly achieve a predetermined state for investigation of crime using communication means is provided. An information output system 200 includes an identification unit 220, a storage unit 230, and an output unit 250. The identification unit 220 identifies an observed state, based on information indicating a message from a person. The storage unit 230 stores knowledge information to be used for reasoning of a target state being a predetermined state for investigation. The output unit 250 performs reasoning, based on observation information indicating the observed state and the knowledge information, and outputs information indicating a message to be spoken or sent by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200042892
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: calculating, in a graph including a node and a link indicating a connection relationship between the nodes, a second probability of the node to be calculated, based on a first probability set for the link; extracting the link, when the second probabilities of the nodes being both ends of the link satisfies a predetermined condition; outputting first information relevant to the extracted link and the graph; acquiring second information relevant to the first information; and updating the first probability of the link in the graph, based on the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Takashi SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 10533100
    Abstract: Near-infrared shielding material fine particles that exhibit an effect of maintaining a high transmittance in a visible light region while shielding a light in a near-infrared region more efficiently than tungsten oxide and composite tungsten oxide of a conventional technique, and the method for producing the same, and a dispersion liquid containing the near-infrared shielding material fine particles. The near-infrared shielding material fine particles are composite tungsten oxide containing a hexagonal crystal structure, and a lattice constant of the composite tungsten oxide fine particles is 7.3850 ? or more and 7.4186 ? or less on the a-axis, and 7.5600 ? or more and 7.6240 ? or less on the c-axis, and a particle size of the near-infrared shielding material fine particles is 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Takeshi Chonan
  • Publication number: 20190374047
    Abstract: A damper device set is provided which can mount a damper device on a door that is thin and has a constraint on the mounting position. A first fastening member is used to fix a mounting plate to a door. A second fastening member placed at a position different from the first fastening member in a thickness direction of the door is used to fix, to the mounting plate, a damper device including a case and a linear damper housed in the case. At least part of the linear damper overlaps at least part of the first fastening member in plan view of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro NISHIYAMA, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Kazuaki KASHIWAGUMA, Shuu SHIMIZU