Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Arai

Hiroshi Arai 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).

  • Patent number: 11196929
    Abstract: Posture information corresponding to a line of an input image is calculated. Then, a first virtual line, which is a line in a line direction of the input image for which the posture information calculated is common, is rotated according to the posture information to obtain a second virtual line on the output image. For each pixel of the output image, a corresponding second virtual line is calculated, and posture information is obtained on the basis of the corresponding second virtual line. Then, for coordinates of each pixel of the output image, the reference coordinates on the input image corresponding to the pixel coordinates is calculated using the associated posture information. By cutting out the output image from the input image on the basis of the reference pixel, highly accurate distortion correction can be realized even in a case where the camera posture differs depending on the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norimitsu Okiyama, Hiroshi Arai, Yumi Nagaoka, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210311091
    Abstract: A cantilever (2) has a probe (7) at a tip end. An optical system (80) emits laser light to the cantilever (2) and detects the laser light reflected by the cantilever (2). A measurement unit (14) measures characteristics of a sample (9) based on a displacement of the cantilever (2) obtained by a change in a position of the laser light detected by the optical system (80). The laser light adjustment unit (20) adjusts, when adjusting the optical axis of the laser light, a spot diameter of the laser light to be larger than the spot diameter when measuring the characteristics of a sample (8). The imaging unit (10) captures an image of a range including the position of the probe (7) when adjusting the optical axis of the laser light. The display unit (12) displays the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuma WATANABE, Keita FUJINO, Masato HIRADE, Kenji YAMASAKI, Hideo NAKAJIMA, Yuichiro IKEDA, Hiroshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210314473
    Abstract: The accuracy of rolling shutter distortion correction for captured images is improved. Posture information corresponding to a line of an input image is calculated. Then, a first virtual line, which is a line in a line direction of the input image for which the posture information calculated is common, is rotated according to the posture information to obtain a second virtual line on the output image. For each pixel of the output image, a corresponding second virtual line is calculated, and posture information is obtained on the basis of the corresponding second virtual line. Then, for coordinates of each pixel of the output image, the reference coordinates on the input image corresponding to the pixel coordinates is calculated using the associated posture information. By cutting out the output image from the input image on the basis of the reference pixel, highly accurate distortion correction can be realized even in a case where the camera posture differs depending on the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: NORIMITSU OKIYAMA, HIROSHI ARAI, YUMI NAGAOKA, HIROAKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210192393
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided and includes an obtaining unit obtains an estimation result of a score representing a likelihood for each of a first candidate and a second candidate for a label to be added as an annotation to data to be annotated. A control unit controls processing for displaying, depending on the score for each of the first candidate and the second candidate, first display information and second display information through an output unit, the first display information indicating a display position associated with the first candidate, the second display information indicating a display position associated with the second candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Patent number: 11007820
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having a tire equator C and a first tread edge Te1. The tread portion is provided with a first main groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction and a first land region. The first main groove is provided on its axially outer groove wall with recessed portions recessed axially outwardly and arranged in the tire circumferential direction. The first land region is provided with first lateral grooves each comprising a first portion connected with the first main groove to form an opening and a second portion having a groove width smaller than the first portion and disposed axially inside thereof. At least a part of the opening of at least one of the first lateral grooves faces one of the recessed portions in the tire axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Patent number: 11007823
    Abstract: Provided is a tire in which a first land portion partitions a first main groove from a second main groove. A first lug groove and a first sipe are provided in the first land portion. One end of the first lug groove communicates with the first main groove. The first sipe includes one end communicating with the second main groove and another end communicating with another end of the first lug groove. The first sipe includes a steeply inclined portion extending from the another end of the first lug groove and having an angle with respect to a tire circumferential direction smaller than that of the first lug groove, and a gently inclined portion extending from the steeply inclined portion to the second main groove and having an angle with respect to the tire circumferential direction larger than that of the steeply inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20210055326
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope 1 is provided with a control unit 15. The control unit 15 includes a signal acquisition processing unit 151, an image acquisition processing unit 152, a scanning condition change processing unit 154, a scanning processing unit 155, and a noise determination processing unit 156. In the scanning probe microscope 1, when removing noise included in a surface image of a sample, the scanning condition change processing unit 154 changes a scanning condition. And, the signal acquisition processing unit 151 acquires an output signal from a detection unit 12. The image acquisition processing unit 152 acquires a surface image of a sample S based on the output signal. The noise determination processing unit 156 determines whether or not noise is inclined in the output signal contains noise based on the change in the output signal or the change in the surface image of the sample S when the scanning condition is changed by the scanning condition change processing unit 154.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi ARAI, Masato HIRADE
  • Publication number: 20200361244
    Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion including a crown land portion defined between two main grooves extending continuously in a tyre circumferential direction. The crown land portion is provided with crown lateral grooves traversing the crown land portion. Each of the crown lateral grooves, in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to its longitudinal direction, includes a sipe portion having a width equal to or less than 1.5 mm, and a main portion connected to the sipe portion and opening at a ground contact surface of the crown land portion. The main portion has a width enlarging from the sipe portion. The main portion has a depth smaller than depths of the main grooves. The sipe portion has a first wall extending in a tyre radial direction so as to be continuous with a first wall of the main portion to form a single groove wall together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi ARAI
  • Patent number: 10830791
    Abstract: A holding member, a sample container, and a mounting member are used in a scanning probe microscope. The mounting member is made of an elastically deformable material such as a rubber material. The mounting member includes an annular main body. When the mounting member is mounted on the holding member and the sample container, the holding member is inserted into the sample container while the main body of the mounting member is elastically deformed along an outer circumferential surface of the sample container. One end of the mounting member is detached from the outer circumferential surface of the sample container, and brought into close contact with an outer circumferential surface of the holding member. When the holding member and the sample container are relatively moved, the main body of the mounting member is elastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arai, Akinori Kogure
  • Patent number: 10789691
    Abstract: This information processing apparatus includes: a mechanical learning module that is a multiplier-accumulator circuit including a plurality of deep-learning neural network blocks hierarchized and synthesizes an algorithm having a filter characteristic for image processing by mechanical learning, the image processing being a target; a debug module that analyzes a digital filter characteristic in each of the deep-learning neural network blocks on the basis of input and output data in the mechanical learning module; and a grading module that develops an output image from an input image by performing gain control on the basis of a result of analysis of the debug module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Patent number: 10697997
    Abstract: When trace image data is obtained while a probe is used to scan a region on a sample in a forward direction and retrace image data is obtained while the same region is scanned in the reverse direction, a deviation information storage unit stores deviation detected by a deviation detection unit. This deviation is an indication of the difference between the distance between the probe and the sample and a target value for the distance at a given point in time. An image data selection unit compares the deviation during forward scanning and the deviation during reverse scanning for each measurement point, selects the image data obtained during scanning that has the smaller deviation, and stores the same to a storage region of an image data storage unit as selected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20200184554
    Abstract: A credit information providing server device includes: at least one memory configured to store instruction; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire, from a terminal device, procedure information including information of a procedure performed for a person who temporarily comes from abroad; generate, based on the procedure information, credit information indicating a prediction of an economic influence produced by the person who temporarily comes from abroad; and provide, based on information identifying a person who temporarily comes from abroad, the credit information of an identified person who temporarily comes from abroad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi ARAI
  • Patent number: 10641790
    Abstract: Provided is a scanning probe microscope being able to shorten an observation time of a minute observation object. Main measurement is performed to acquire a surface image of a sample based on a detection signal in a measurement range of a plurality of lines by repeating, for each line, processing of scanning a cantilever at predetermined second intervals in a Y-direction after acquiring the detection signal at predetermined first intervals while scanning the cantilever on a line having a predetermined length along an X-direction. Preliminary measurement is performed to acquire a surface image of the sample by acquiring the detection signal at intervals wider than the first intervals or scanning the cantilever in the Y-direction at intervals wider than the second intervals before the main measurement, the surface image of the sample being coarser than the surface image in the main measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Watanabe, Keita Fujino, Eiji Iida, Masato Hirade, Kenji Yamasaki, Hideo Nakajima, Yuichiro Ikeda, Hiroshi Arai
  • Patent number: 10598691
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope includes a light source, a detector, a housing, an opening and closing door, an opening and closing sensor, a control unit, and the like. The opening and closing door is provided in the housing. The control unit 16 also functions as the light intensity change processing unit 164. In the scanning probe microscope, when the opening and closing sensor detects opening and closing of the opening and closing door, the light intensity change processing unit automatically changes the intensity of light irradiated from the light source based on a detection result of the opening and closing sensor. Therefore, it is possible to omit light intensity adjustment work performed manually by the user. As a result, the workability of the user when using the scanning probe microscope 1 can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Watanabe, Keita Fujino, Eiji Iida, Masato Hirade, Kenji Yamasaki, Hideo Nakajima, Yuichiro Ikeda, Hiroshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20200054106
    Abstract: A key case includes an outer case having an opening portion at one end of the outer case and an inner case accommodating an electronic key and placed inside the outer case. The outer case and the inner case of the key case are plated with metal or composed of metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: SHINWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi ARAI, Junichi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10567646
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and a transmission unit. The imaging unit is configured to capture two images that are different from each other by a predetermined amount of an optical distance (focus) between an objective lens and an imaging device having a first resolution. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20190353680
    Abstract: A holding member, a sample container, and a mounting member are used in a scanning probe microscope. The mounting member is made of an elastically deformable material such as a rubber material. The mounting member includes an annular main body. When the mounting member is mounted on the holding member and the sample container, the holding member is inserted into the sample container while the main body of the mounting member is elastically deformed along an outer circumferential surface of the sample container. One end of the mounting member is detached from the outer circumferential surface of the sample container, and brought into close contact with an outer circumferential surface of the holding member. When the holding member and the sample container are relatively moved, the main body of the mounting member is elastically deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi ARAI, Akinori KOGURE
  • Publication number: 20190341131
    Abstract: A medical information terminal for input and display of medical information of a patient comprises a position information obtaining unit that obtains position information of the medical information terminal, an information concealing level setting unit that sets an information concealing level for description contents of each item of the medical information, and an information concealing unit that determines an information display threshold value indicating a threshold value at which the description contents of each item are displayed according to the position information obtained by the position information obtaining unit and conceals the description contents of each item if the information concealing level of each item of the medical information is at the information display threshold value or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20190331711
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope includes a light source, a detector, a housing, an opening and closing door, an opening and closing sensor, a control unit, and the like. The opening and closing door is provided in the housing. The control unit 16 also functions as the light intensity change processing unit 164. In the scanning probe microscope, when the opening and closing sensor detects opening and closing of the opening and closing door, the light intensity change processing unit automatically changes the intensity of light irradiated from the light source based on a detection result of the opening and closing sensor. Therefore, it is possible to omit light intensity adjustment work performed manually by the user. As a result, the workability of the user when using the scanning probe microscope 1 can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuma WATANABE, Keita FUJINO, Eiji IIDA, Masato HIRADE, Kenji YAMASAKI, Hideo NAKAJIMA, Yuichiro IKEDA, Hiroshi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20190324053
    Abstract: Provided is a scanning probe microscope being able to shorten an observation time of a minute observation object. Main measurement is performed to acquire a surface image of a sample based on a detection signal in a measurement range of a plurality of lines by repeating, for each line, processing of scanning a cantilever at predetermined second intervals in a Y-direction after acquiring the detection signal at predetermined first intervals while scanning the cantilever on a line having a predetermined length along an X-direction. Preliminary measurement is performed to acquire a surface image of the sample by acquiring the detection signal at intervals wider than the first intervals or scanning the cantilever in the Y-direction at intervals wider than the second intervals before the main measurement, the surface image of the sample being coarser than the surface image in the main measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuma WATANABE, Keita FUJINO, Eiji IIDA, Masato HIRADE, Kenji YAMASAKI, Hideo NAKAJIMA, Yuichiro IKEDA, Hiroshi ARAI