Patents by Inventor Hiroki Taniguchi

Hiroki Taniguchi 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: 20240118700
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a camera, a display that displays a display screen including a mobile robot that autonomously travels, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a first planned route of the mobile robot, displays, on the display, a screen having the first planned route superimposed on a camera image taken by the camera, detects a contact point on the display on which the screen is displayed, generates a second planned route of the mobile robot that travels through the contact point, and transmits the second planned route to the mobile robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuko TSUSAKA, Mikiya NAKATA, Hiroki TAKEUCHI, Tadahiro TANIGUCHI, Yoshinobu HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240087873
    Abstract: A quadrupole mass spectrometer includes a quadrupole mass filter including: a main rod portion including four main rod electrodes; a pre-rod portion including four pre-rod electrodes, where, at an end opposite to the main rod portion, the four pre-rod electrodes are disposed to be aligned on an inscribed circle having the same radius centered on the ion optical axis, and, at the other end facing the main rod portion, two pre-rod electrodes facing each other across the ion optical axis and the other two pre-rod electrodes are disposed to be aligned on an inscribed circle having different radii centered on the ion optical axis; a main voltage applying unit to apply, to each main rod electrodes, a voltage created by superimposing a DC voltage and an RF voltage; and a pre-voltage applying unit to apply an RF voltage having a same frequency as the RF voltage to each pre-rod electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Manabu UEDA, Hiroki MIYASHIRO, Junichi TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11920261
    Abstract: An object is to mitigate plugging of spinneret hole, the plugging occurring with the passage of spinning time, even though cellulose acetate has a small titanium dioxide content or contains no titanium dioxide, and to prevent a reduction in pressure drop of the resulting cellulose acetate band. A cellulose acetate fiber having a titanium dioxide content of not greater than 0.05 wt. %; and a content of at least one type of metal oxide selected from the group consisting of Fe3O4, Fe2O3, MnO2, Cr2O3, Cr2CuO4, NiO, Sb2O3, and CoAl2O4 of not smaller than 0.05 wt. % and not greater than 1 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyokutou Ga, Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11889988
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source apparatus; an image pickup apparatus configured to pick up an image of an object including a region containing hemoglobin irradiated with illumination light and output an image-pickup signal; and a processor. The processor performs predetermined image processing on at least one of a first image and a second image and outputs the one image, the first image being obtained by performing image pickup of the object irradiated with the first light, the second image being obtained by performing image pickup of the object irradiated with the second light, and generates an observation image by using the first and second images obtained as a processing result of the predetermined image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11855699
    Abstract: An optical transmitter generates symbols for transmission by applying a predetermined coding method to each of m-valued transmission symbols generated from transmission data, generates signal light by performing optical modulation on the basis of the symbols for transmission, and transmits the signal light. An optical receiver generates a series of digital signals from the received signal light, detects coded symbols by applying predetermined digital signal processing to the series of digital signals, decodes the m-valued transmission symbols from the detected coded symbols, and restores the transmission data from the decoded m-valued transmission symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto Yamamoto, Masanori Nakamura, Hiroki Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Publication number: 20230360298
    Abstract: An endoscope processor includes a processor. The processor discriminates, in first image information acquired by applying first illumination light, between first region image information constituted of an object of an interest subject and second region image information constituted of an object of a non-interest subject, generates third region image information of a region in second image information acquired by applying second illumination light, the region including at least a part of a region of the second region image information, the second illumination light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first illumination light and passing through the object of the non-interest subject, and combines the first region image information and the third region image information, to generate a partial transparent image in which the object of the non-interest subject of the first image information is made transparent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Akihiro KUBOTA, Yamato KANDA, Yasunori MORITA, Naohisa TAKABATAKE, Takashi KONO, Hiroki TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230361881
    Abstract: The symbol determination device generates the plurality of estimated reception symbol sequences on the basis of the estimated transfer function of the transmission line represented by the tap gain value applied to each tap of the nonlinear filter including the plurality of taps and the plurality of candidate symbol sequences, determines the transmission symbol by the maximum likelihood sequence estimation on the basis of the determination target reception symbol sequence obtained from the reception signal sequence and each of the plurality of estimated reception symbol sequences, identifies the estimated transmission symbol corresponding to the determination target reception symbol sequence, calculates the new tap gain values on the basis of the determination target reception symbol sequence and the identified estimated transmission symbol sequence, updates the estimated transfer function by applying the calculated tap gain values to the taps of the transmission line estimation unit, and selects the tap to be
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Masanori NAKAMURA, Shuto YAMAMOTO, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Patent number: 11801505
    Abstract: A cation exchange chromatographic matrix comprising a base material, and a copolymer with one monomer unit having at least a sulfonic acid group, the copolymer being immobilized on the base material, wherein: the copolymer forms substantially no cross-linked structure, and the copolymer comprises neither acrylamide nor an acrylamide derivative as a monomer unit, or comprises acrylamide or an acrylamide derivative as a monomer unit in a range which has no substantial influence; the ratio of the mass of the copolymer to the mass of the base material is 5% or more and 200% or less; and the density of the sulfonic acid group is higher than 30 mmol/L and 200 mmol/L or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11780474
    Abstract: When an own vehicle changes lanes to another lane different from the traveling lane by override, a traveling control device for a vehicle generates a first travelable area in the traveling lane based on the predicted traveling trajectory in accordance with the override of the own vehicle and generates a second travelable area along the other lane. The traveling control device for the vehicle generates a third travelable area by connecting the first travelable area and the second travelable area, generates an own vehicle traveling trajectory within the third travelable area and controls a motion of the own vehicle so that the own vehicle travels along the own vehicle traveling trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.
    Inventor: Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230291482
    Abstract: An optical transmission system is an optical transmission system for transmitting a signal from an optical transmitter to an optical receiver via at least a transmission line among one or more optical nodes and the transmission line, wherein the optical transmitter includes a digital filter that compensates for, between ripple components that are micro-fluctuating components in a frequency region representing a transmission characteristic of the signal in the optical transmitter and the optical receiver and non-ripple components of the transmission characteristic, at least the ripple components of the transmission characteristic, and at least one of the optical node and the optical transmitter includes an optical filter that compensates for the non-ripple components of the transmission characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto YAMAMOTO, Masanori NAKAMURA, Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Publication number: 20230261759
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an optical signal demodulator including an optical reception unit, an AD conversion unit, a digital signal processing unit, and a signal determination unit, in which the signal determination unit includes: a spectrum shaping filter processing unit that receives a reception signal sequence of the digital signal from the digital signal processing unit and outputs a value obtained by performing a convolution operation on the reception signal sequence which is received; a transmission line simulation filter processing unit that outputs a value obtained by performing a convolution operation on a candidate signal sequence which is determined based on a symbol transition of the reception signal; an error information acquisition unit that acquires error information between the value output from the spectrum shaping filter processing unit and the value output from the transmission line simulation filter processing unit; and a bit determination unit tha
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto YAMAMOTO, Masanori NAKAMURA, Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Publication number: 20230228400
    Abstract: An indoor illumination device includes a compartment-side ceiling member, a lighting body support base, a direct illumination lighting body, and an indirect illumination lighting body. The lighting body support base is attached to the compartment-side ceiling member. The direct illumination lighting body is supported by a lighting body support base such that an illumination section of direct illumination lighting body is disposed below the compartment-side ceiling member and direct light is radiated into the passenger compartment. The indirect illumination lighting body is supported by a lighting body support base such that an illumination section of the indirect illumination lighting body is disposed above the compartment-side ceiling member and reflected light is radiated into the passenger compartment. The lighting body support base extends in a vehicle forward/rearward direction at an outer side portion of the ceiling section in the passenger compartment in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Shuto Yoshiuchi, Yoshitomo Oka, Makoto Ohta, Masakazu Okada, Mai Nagasawa, Tomoyo Futakawame, Tomoo Ito, Hiroki Taniguchi, Yuichiro Imaizumi, Miki Saito
  • Patent number: 11706065
    Abstract: A device generates a symbol sequence by performing adaptive equalization by an estimation inverse transfer function of a transmission line on a reception signal sequence extracted from the transmission line, and performing provisional determination on the symbol sequence generated; generates a plurality of the symbol sequences indicating transmission line states in a range of a provisional determination symbol provisionally determined and nearby symbols of the provisional determination symbol; generates, based on the plurality of the symbol sequences indicating the transmission line states generated and an estimation transfer function of the transmission line, an estimation reception symbol sequence for each of the transmission line states; calculates a metric between the symbol sequence obtained from the reception signal sequence and each of a plurality of the estimation reception symbol sequences; selects a most likelihood estimation reception symbol sequence of the plurality of the estimation reception sym
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Taniguchi, Masanori Nakamura, Shuto Yamamoto, Akira Masuda, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Publication number: 20230130981
    Abstract: This cellulose acetate has a total degree of acetyl substitution of 1.75 or more and 2.55 or less, and a degree of acetyl substitution at 2-position or a degree of acetyl substitution at 3-position is 0.7 or less. This cellulose acetate composition includes the cellulose acetate and an additive. The additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of (a) substances of which a pH of a 1 wt. % aqueous solution at 20° C. is 8 or more, (b) substances that dissolve in water at 20° C. in an amount of 2 wt. % or more, and (c) substances that exhibit biodegradability in seawater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Daicel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUMURA, Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Akihiro HIGUCHI, Tomohiro HASHIZUME, Masaaki KUSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230071063
    Abstract: An optical transmitter generates symbols for transmission by applying a predetermined coding method to each of m-valued transmission symbols generated from transmission data, generates signal light by performing optical modulation on the basis of the symbols for transmission, and transmits the signal light. An optical receiver generates a series of digital signals from the received signal light, detects coded symbols by applying predetermined digital signal processing to the series of digital signals, decodes the m-valued transmission symbols from the detected coded symbols, and restores the transmission data from the decoded m-valued transmission symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto YAMAMOTO, Masanori NAKAMURA, Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Patent number: 11581944
    Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmitter and an optical receiver, wherein the optical transmitter includes a signal coding unit that performs non-linear block coding on an M (M is an integer greater than or equal to 1)-value symbol sequence or a bit sequence input as data information to generate an L (L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, L>M)-value symbol sequence that corresponds to the M-value symbol sequence or the bit sequence in one-to-one correspondence, a digital-to-analog conversion unit that converts the generated L-value symbol sequence to an analog signal, and a modulator that generates an optical modulation signal by performing modulation based on the analog signal, and the optical receiver includes a light receiving unit that receives the optical modulation signal transmitted from the optical transmitter and converts the optical modulation signal to an electrical signal, and a signal decoding unit that restores the M-value symbol sequence or the bit sequence by pe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto Yamamoto, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Masuda, Hiroki Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Patent number: 11572457
    Abstract: This cellulose acetate has a total degree of acetyl substitution of 1.75 or more and 2.55 or less, and a degree of acetyl substitution at 2-position or a degree of acetyl substitution at 3-position is 0.7 or less. This cellulose acetate composition includes the cellulose acetate and an additive. The additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of (a) substances of which a pH of a 1 wt. % aqueous solution at 20° C. is 8 or more, (b) substances that dissolve in water at 20° C. in an amount of 2 wt. % or more, and (c) substances that exhibit biodegradability in seawater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumura, Hiroki Taniguchi, Akihiro Higuchi, Tomohiro Hashizume, Masaaki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11524704
    Abstract: The travel control device, when determining that the traffic congestion is occurred in the other lane, detects, behind another vehicle in the other lane, an approach space; determines whether the approach space meets a predetermined condition; when determining that the approach space meets the predetermined condition, sets the target posture of the own vehicle at the target position behind the other vehicle in the other lane based on the shape of the approach space; and generates a target traveling trajectory from a current position of the own vehicle to the target position. The travel control device controls the motion of the own vehicle so that the own vehicle tracks the target traveling trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.
    Inventor: Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11512183
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cellulose acetate composition for thermoforming with excellent biodegradability and excellent thermoformability. A cellulose acetate composition for thermoforming containing a cellulose acetate and a glycerin ester-based plasticizer, wherein the cellulose acetate has a degree of acetyl substitution of 1.4 or greater and 2.0 or less, a compositional distribution index (CDI) of 4.0 or less, and a total sulfur content of 15 mg/kg or greater and less than 150 mg/kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyokutou Ga, Hiroki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11444694
    Abstract: Provided is an optical transmission system that includes an optical transmitter, and an optical receiver. The optical transmitter includes: a signal coding unit configured to perform nonlinear trellis coding, which corresponds to nonlinear calculation, on a symbol sequence; and a modulator configured to modulate the symbol sequence subjected to the nonlinear trellis coding by the signal coding unit, and transmit the modulated symbol sequence to the optical receiver. The optical receiver includes: a light receiving unit configured to receive an optical signal transmitted from the optical transmitter, and convert the received optical signal into an electrical signal; and a digital signal processing unit configured to perform digital signal processing on the electrical signal to reconstruct the symbol sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto Yamamoto, Akira Masuda, Hiroki Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kisaka