Patents by Inventor Hiroki Watanabe
Hiroki Watanabe 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: 12705743Abstract: The medical image processing device acquires the plurality of types of medical images obtained by imaging a subject under imaging conditions different from each other. In a case where a first medical image that is one type of the plurality of types of medical images is input, diagnosis information regarding a diagnosis of the subject shown in the first medical image is generated. Diagnostic reference information is generated using assigned reference information that is the reference information assigned to a second medical image which is included in the medical image and which has a type different from the first medical image.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12706522Abstract: In one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a current output circuit configured to output a drive current to a switching element, a first detection circuit configured to detect a timing at which a voltage between output terminals of the switching element, and a control circuit configured to cause the current output circuit to start outputting a first drive current in accordance with a command signal that instructs switching operation of the switching element. The control circuit switches the drive current output from the current output circuit to a second drive current smaller than the first drive current based on the timing at which the voltage between the output terminals, the timing being detected by the first detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Watanabe, Takeshi Ueno
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Patent number: 12704795Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fine particle containing silicon, wherein the fine particle has a number-average particle diameter of a primary particle of 0.05 ?m or more and 0.20 ?m or less, wherein the fine particle contains a silicon atom at a ratio of 20% or more with respect to all elements in measurement by X-ray fluorescence.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ichiro Kanno, Hayato Ida, Hiroki Watanabe, Mari Kaburagi
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Publication number: 20260207890Abstract: A catheter has a novel structure that solves problems such as local stiffness at a portion where an operation wire is connected. The catheter includes a main lumen and an operation lumen, and is operable as a result of an operation wire inserted through the operation lumen being fixed on a distal end side. A distal end tube is fastened in a butted state to a periphery of a distal end opening of the main lumen. The operation wire extending out of a distal end opening of the operation lumen is adhered to an outer circumferential surface of the distal end tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: July 23, 2026Applicant: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenobu AKIHAMA, Hiroki WATANABE, Chiaki OTSUKA, Ryota KANKE
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Patent number: 12689543Abstract: This invention enables flexible connection with a wide variety of core networks even without changing, for example, equipment and/or operating systems related to existing base stations. This invention serves as at least one of (i) an interface via which a base station and a first core network are connected with each other and (ii) an interface via which a terminal device connected with the first core network via the base station and the first core network are connected with each other, and includes: a first stateful communication section (51) carrying out communication with the base station according to a stateful protocol; and a stateless communication section (52) carrying out communication with the first core network according to a stateless protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventors: Katsuhiro Horiba, Keiichi Shima, Hiroki Watanabe, Tomoya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Murata, Tomoaki Kanaya, Hirotaka Nishino, Ryoji Hirai
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Publication number: 20260205000Abstract: A power conversion system includes a transformer, N first inverters, N second inverters, and a control unit. The transformer has primary windings of 2N branches for a three-phase alternating current (AC) and a secondary winding of a single branch for the three-phase AC. The control unit controls each of the N first inverters and the N second inverters according to pulse width modulation (PWM) control. A first primary winding corresponding to one of the N first inverters and a second primary winding corresponding to one of the N second inverters are decided on the basis of a magnitude of percentage impedance (% Z) from each primary winding to the secondary winding. A phase of a first carrier of PWM control for one of the N first inverters and a phase of a second carrier of PWM control for one of the N second inverters are inverted. N denotes a natural number greater than or equal to 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: TMEIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki WATANABE, Masashi NAKAMURA, Toshiaki OKA
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Patent number: 12667249Abstract: The image processing apparatus acquires a plurality of types of candidate images based on an endoscope image, performs control of displaying, on a display, a display image based on at least one type of candidate image, performs a first analysis process on one or the plurality of types of candidate images set in advance, selects at least one type of candidate image from the plurality of types of candidate images as an optimum image based on a first analysis process result obtained through the first analysis process, and obtains a second analysis process result by performing a second analysis process on the optimum image.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12670803Abstract: A learning system according to one aspect of the present invention presents a question to a learner, receives an answer to the question from the learner, and after answering is complete, presents the correct answer of the question to the learner. In a case where the learner's answer to the presented question is incorrect, the learning system acquires measurement data of brain waves from when the correct answer to the incorrectly answered question was presented to the learner, and calculates the intensity of feedback-related negativity from the acquired measurement data. In accordance with the calculated intensity of the feedback-related negativity and the incorrectly answered question, the learning system acquires the next question to be presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hiroki Watanabe, Yasushi Naruse
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Patent number: 12647302Abstract: This invention enables flexible connection with a wide variety of core networks even without changing, for example, equipment and/or operating systems related to existing base stations. This invention serves as at least one of (i) an interface via which a base station and a first core network are connected with each other and (ii) an interface via which a terminal device connected with the first core network via the base station and the first core network are connected with each other, and includes: a first stateful communication section (51) carrying out communication with the base station according to a stateful protocol; and a stateless communication section (52) carrying out communication with the first core network according to a stateless protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventors: Katsuhiro Horiba, Keiichi Shima, Hiroki Watanabe, Tomoya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Murata, Tomoaki Kanaya, Hirotaka Nishino, Ryoji Hirai
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Patent number: 12634366Abstract: An information processing apparatus operates as an IoTSP 1 (corresponding to an example of “first IoTSP”) that provides a service for causing a user to acquire sensor data. The information processing apparatus includes a communication unit that executes communication with another IoTSP (corresponding to an example of “second IoTSP other than the first IoTSP”) and a control unit that searches the sensor data corresponding to an acquisition request of the user via an application and responds to the user with the searched sensor data. The control unit searches the sensor data from the other IoTSP via the communication unit based on an identifier of the other IoTSP included in the acquisition request and policy information indicating propriety of information sharing between the IoTSPs and uses a protocol interface including the same procedure as a procedure between the application and IoTSP1 when searching the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Hirofumi Kasai, Fumio Teraoka, Hiroki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20260133142Abstract: An article inspection device includes an image storage unit that stores an inspection image by imaging an article, a determination unit that determines a quality state of the article by obtaining an inference value related to the quality state as confidence for each predetermined unit region of the inspection image and comparing with a threshold value using a learning model, an inference value image generation unit that generates an inference value image having a pixel density corresponding to the inference value, a projection image generation unit that generates a projection image by projecting a maximum value of the density corresponding to the inference value to an x-axis for a plurality of line image regions xpi present in a y-axis direction in the inference value image, and a display control unit that displays the projection image by adding a line corresponding to the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2025Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: Takeshi YAMAZAKI, Hiroki WATANABE
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Patent number: 12583329Abstract: A power conversion device includes a primary-side circuit, a first connection line and a second connection line, a first capacitor provided on the first connection line, a second capacitor provided on the second connection line, a secondary-side circuit. The secondary-side circuit includes a first leg and a second leg. The first leg includes a first coil and a first diode, which are connected in series to each other. The second leg includes a second coil and a second diode, which are connected in series to each other. An anode terminal of the first diode and an anode terminal of the second diode are electrically connected to a negative one of the two output ends. A cathode terminal of the first diode is electrically connected to the first coil. A cathode terminal of the second diode is electrically connected to the second coil.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2024Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kenichi Nagayoshi, Takehiko Sumida, Junichi Itoh, Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12587105Abstract: In a DAB circuit including a first bridge and a second bridge, a boost circuit is shared by connecting reactors between a storage battery and the first bridge. In each leg of the first bridge, in order to increase an absolute value of a reactor current, an ON period of one switching element of a switching element on a high voltage side and a switching element on a low voltage side is provided, and then, an ON period of the other switching element is provided. An ON period length of the one switching element is set according to a control command value of a DC voltage input to the first bridge. An ON period length of the other switching element is set to a time length until an absolute value of the reactor current that has increased during the ON period of the one switching element returns to zero.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yu Kawai, Kikuo Izumi, Junichi Itoh, Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12561955Abstract: An endoscope system that illuminates a subject and captures light from the subject acquires an examination image based on an image signal captured by an endoscope, divides the examination image into a plurality of regions as an input image, inputs the input image divided into the plurality of regions to a first classifier to output region evaluation values for the plurality of regions, and inputs an input image in which the region evaluation values are added to the plurality of regions to a second classifier to output a lesion evaluation value.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20260039289Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic circuitry includes a processing circuitry configured to determine a current polarity being a polarity of a current flowing through at least one of a first switching element and a second switching element, based on a first voltage between a first electrode and a second electrode of the first switching element during a dead time of a half-bridge circuit, the half-bridge circuit including the first switching element and the second switching element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi UENO, Takuya HIRAKAWA, Hiroki WATANABE
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Patent number: 12537195Abstract: Each of the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide A and the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide B contains Ni in an amount of 55 mol % or more relative to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide A has an average primary particle diameter of 2 ?m or more, an average secondary particle diameter of 2 to 6 ?m, a particle fracture load of 5 to 35 mN and a BET specific surface area of 0.5 m2/g to 1.0 m2/g, and the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide B has an average primary particle diameter of 1 ?m or less, an average secondary particle diameter of 10 to 20 ?m, a particle fracture load of 10 to 35 mN and a BET specific surface area of 0.1 m2/g to 1.0 m2/g.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidekazu Hiratsuka, Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12512745Abstract: A power conversion device includes two input terminals, a first converter, and two first output terminals configured to output power converted by the first converter. The first converter includes a switching circuit, a flying capacitor, and a reactor. The power conversion device includes a second converter configured to perform power conversion on a voltage across the flying capacitor as an input voltage, two second converter input terminals electrically connected to two ends of the flying capacitor, and two second output terminals configured to output power converted by the second converter. The second converter includes a primary-side circuit and a secondary-side circuit. The second converter is an isolated DC/DC converter in which the primary-side circuit and the secondary-side circuit are electrically isolated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2024Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kenichi Nagayoshi, Takehiko Sumida, Junichi Itoh, Hiroki Watanabe
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Patent number: 12487539Abstract: A fine particle of a silicon polymer, wherein the fine particle has pores; the total pore volume of the fine particle is 0.35 to 1.00 cm3/g; a number-average primary particle diameter of the fine particle is 0.05 to 0.30 ?m; the silicon polymer has a siloxane bond and an Si—R1 bond; R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and designating, with reference to a chart obtained by 29Si-NMR measurement of the fine particle, A as a total peak area corresponding to the silicon polymer, and B as a peak area corresponding to Si—R1, A and B satisfy a following formula (1): 10.0?B/A×100?45.0??(1).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro Kanno, Hiroki Watanabe, Masaharu Miura, Hayato Ida
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Patent number: 12476156Abstract: A semiconductor chip includes a chip-constituting substrate having one surface, the other surface opposite to the one surface, and two pairs of opposing side surfaces connecting the one surface and the other surface. The one surface and the other surface are along one of a {0001} c-plane, a {1-100} m-plane, and a {11-20} a-plane. One of the two pairs of opposing side surfaces is along another one of the {0001} c-plane, the {1-100} m-plane, and the {11-20} a-plane. The other of the two pairs of opposing side surfaces is along the other of the {0001} c-plane, the {1-100} m-plane, and the {11-20} a-plane. The side surface includes an altered layer containing gallium oxide and gallium metal in a surface layer portion in a depth direction which is a normal direction to the side surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies Corporation, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research SystemInventors: Masatake Nagaya, Hiroki Watanabe, Junji Ohara, Daisuke Kawaguchi, Keisuke Hara, Chiaki Sasaoka, Jun Kojima, Shoichi Onda
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Publication number: 20250346496Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nickel-cobalt-manganese-based positive electrode active material comprising a large particle group and a small particle group. An average particle size D50 of the large particle group is greater than an average particle size D50 of the small particle group; the average particle size D50 of the large particle group is from 12 to 20 ?m; the large particle group includes polycrystal aggregate particles; each polycrystal aggregate particle includes a secondary particle consisting of a plurality of primary particles aggregated together; each polycrystal aggregate particle has a primary particle size of 2.0 ?m or less; a crystallite size of a (003) plane of each polycrystal aggregate particle is from 950 to 1210 ?; a crystallite size of a (104) plane of each polycrystal aggregate particle is from 500 to 750 ?; and a peak intensity ratio I(003)/I(104) of the polycrystal aggregate particles is 2.10 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2025Publication date: November 13, 2025Inventor: Hiroki WATANABE