Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hashimoto
Hiroshi Hashimoto 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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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250117464Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first score acquisition unit that performs one-to-N verification by using target data acquired from a verification target and N pieces of registration data registered in advance, thereby acquiring a first matching score; and a second score acquisition unit that transforms the first matching score on the basis of an amount depending on a number of verifications N of the registration data, thereby acquiring a second matching score. According to such an information processing apparatus, it is possible to transform a score of the one-to-N verification into an appropriate value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Akihiro HAYASAKA -
Patent number: 12270188Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Kazunari Yasui, Isami Sakaba, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Satoshi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20250054336Abstract: Provided are: an acquisition unit that acquires a determination target image capturing a plurality of faces; a determination unit that determines whether two faces of the plurality of faces captured in the determination target image, are similar to a predetermined extent or more; and a storage unit that stores two face images respectively including the two faces, in association with a different person label indicating that two people corresponding to the two face images are non-identical persons, in a case where the two faces are similar to a predetermined extent or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250043556Abstract: The present invention provides a flush toilet apparatus that includes a flush toilet main body, and a flush water tank that is fixed via at least two fixing points and causes flush water to flow into a water inlet of the flush toilet main body, in which the water inlet is provided at a position eccentric to one side with respect to a lengthwise center line of the flush toilet main body, two of fixing points are each disposed on both sides of the discharge port, and are disposed so that a straight line connecting the two fixing points passes through the discharge port in a top view, and the fixing point located on a rear side among the two fixing points is located closer to the lengthwise center line of the flush toilet main body than a center point of the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Ryohei OKABE, Kenji HATAMA, Kenji WATANABE, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20250043561Abstract: A siphon jet flush toilet comprises: a bowl; a rim spout port suppling flush water to the bowl; a discharge trap conduit; a jet spout port spouting flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit; a reservoir tank including a jet spouting discharge valve and storing flush water; a jet water conduit configured to guide the flush water in the reservoir tank to the jet spout port; and a controller being configured to control a rim spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the rim spout port and a jet spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the jet spout port, wherein the jet spouting discharge valve includes a valve body, the valve body being arranged at a position that is lower than an upper surface of the bowl and higher than a seal water level, and before opening the jet spouting discharge valve, the flush water is supplied to the jet water conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Koichiro MATSUMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Chisato SONE, Shinichi URATA, Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOOKA, Kenji HATAMA
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Publication number: 20250043559Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 12214452Abstract: A welding power source is configured to supply a welding current to a wire as a consumable electrode. The welding power source includes a controller configured to change the welding current based on a position of a distal end of the wire a distance from which to a surface of a base metal varies periodically, in a case where the distal end of the wire is fed toward the base metal with periodical switching between a forward feeding period and a reverse feeding period.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Shogo Nakatsukasa, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Kitamura, Ryo Toda
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Patent number: 12210593Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a classification execution unit (12) that executes class classification, based on an inference device; a computation unit (13) that computes a precision of a class determined by the class classification; a processing unit (14) that outputs a class determined by the class classification and accepts a correct/incorrect input from an operator when the precision is less than a reference value; and a registration unit (15) that registers a product determined by the class classification as a purchase target when the precision is equal to or more than the reference value, and registers a product determined by a correct/incorrect input from the operator as a purchase target when the precision is less than the reference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kan Arai, Kei Shibuya, Ken Hanazawa, Azusa Furukawa, Makiko Akiguchi
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Patent number: 12211313Abstract: A customer analysis apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) and an image processing unit (120). The image acquisition unit (110) acquires a first image generated by a first image capture unit (22) and a second image generated by a second image capture unit (24). The image processing unit (120) processes the first image and the second image. More specifically, the image processing unit (120) generates product information indicating a product (50) taken out from a product shelf (40), by processing the first image and the second image. Further, the image processing unit (120) generates customer attribute information of a customer taking out the product (50), by processing the first image. Then, the image processing unit (120) causes a result storage unit (130) to store the product information and the customer attribute information in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Makiko Akiguchi, Azusa Furukawa, Kei Shibuya, Kan Arai, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Ken Hanazawa
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Publication number: 20240423590Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device configured to: select a first contrast image, a second contrast image, and a third contrast image; identify a first major/minor relationship based on the first contrast image, a second major/minor relationship based on the second contrast image, and a third major/minor relationship based on the third contrast image; and generate an image to determine whether contrast agent has been discharged from the target in the second and third time phases when all of the first, second, and third major/minor relationships indicate that the characteristic value of the target is greater than the characteristic value of the tissue, or that the characteristic value of the target is less than the characteristic value of the tissue, based on the change in the characteristic value of the target over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventor: Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12165054Abstract: A neural network rank optimization device includes tensor decomposition means 1 for performing tensor decomposition processing of tensor-decomposing a convolution filter included in a neural network for low rank approximation, and rank optimization means 2A for optimizing a rank used in the tensor decomposition means 1, wherein the rank optimization means includes evaluation amount calculation means 3 for calculating an evaluation amount representing the degree of the low rank approximation, and rank determination means 4 for determining a rank corresponding to the evaluation amount less than a predetermined threshold value as a desired rank.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240307036Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device configured to (i) accept an input from a user selecting one image group from among the plurality of image groups, (ii) responsive to the input selecting an image group, display the ultrasound images included in the selected image group on the display, (iii) accept, through the user interface, an input for assigning a region of interest to an ultrasound image displayed on the display, (iv) responsive to the input assigning the region of interest, create a data set representing a temporal change in a feature in the region of interest based on the ultrasonic images included in the selected image group, and (v) arrange and integrate a plurality of data sets obtained by repeatedly executing operations (i) to (iv) in a time series, then create a data series representing a temporal change in a feature in the region of interest in the plurality of data sets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Yukifumi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20240287781Abstract: A wall-mounted flush toilet includes a toilet main body fixed to a wall; and an illuminating device attached to the toilet main body, the illuminating device being configured to emit light to a floor surface, wherein the toilet main body includes a bowl, a discharge trap having an inlet connected below the bowl to discharge waste in the bowl, a skirt configured to cover sides of each of the bowl and the discharge trap, and a rear wall part formed behind the skirt and fixed to the wall, the toilet main body being disposed above a floor surface, and the illuminating device is provided within an internal space provided behind the lowermost end of the discharge trap and above a lower end of the skirt.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Yuuki SHINOHARA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Yuya MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20240287780Abstract: A flush toilet apparatus including a warm water wash toilet seat. A flush toilet apparatus includes a toilet main body and a warm water wash toilet seat, the toilet main body includes a bowl, a toilet upper surface, and a discharge trap conduit, and the warm water wash toilet seat includes a body part, a wash nozzle, and a toilet seat rotatably mounted to the body part and disposed on the toilet upper surface, to surround the bowl. On opposite ends of the toilet upper surface in a left-right direction, raised parts projected upward are provided, respectively, and the body part of the warm water wash toilet seat is configured to protrude downward from an upper end of each of the raised parts of the toilet main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Yuuki SHINOHARA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240289799Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a registration unit (12) that recognizes, based on image processing, product discrimination information of a product picked up from a product placing space, and registers the recognized product discrimination information in association with customer discrimination information; and a settlement unit (13) that executes, when it is detected, based on image processing, that a customer having picked up the product performs a predetermined action, a settlement based on a registration content resulting from the registration unit (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kan Arai, Azusa Furukawa, Kei Shibuya, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Makiko Akiguchi, Ken Hanazawa
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Publication number: 20240287782Abstract: A wall-mounted flush toilet includes a ceramic toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste and a discharge trap having an inlet connected to a lower part of the bowl and configured to discharge waste from within the bowl, the ceramic toilet main body further includes a skirt that covers outer shells of the bowl and the discharge trap from sides of the outer shells and a rear end formed rearward of the skirt and configured to be fixed to a wall, and the rear end includes a firing pedestal that functions as a pedestal grounded during a firing process in a ceramic molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Yuuki SHINOHARA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12054929Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part of the bowl part, and a water drainage socket that is connected to the drainage water trap part and includes an upper side water drainage socket that extends downward from the drainage water trap part, a back side R part that is connected to the upper side water drainage socket and changes a flow channel so that a washing water that flows from an upper side is directed to a front side, and a horizontal pipe that extends forward from the back side R part. The back side R part and the horizontal pipe include a water storage part that stores a part of washing water. The water storage part is arranged on a lower side of a back side lower end part of the drainage water trap part.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12037779Abstract: A flush water tank apparatus has a reservoir tank, a discharge valve, a discharge valve hydraulic drive portion configured to drive the discharge valve, and a discharge/vacuum break valve device configured to supply the water supplied from the upstream side to the discharge valve hydraulic drive portion on a downstream side. The discharge valve hydraulic drive portion includes a cylinder, and a piston configured to be moved by a pressure of the water flowing into the cylinder to move the discharge valve. The discharge/vacuum break valve device includes a valve body that operates to discharge the water flowing backward from the discharge valve hydraulic drive portion while opening the upstream side to an atmosphere when the supply of the water from the upstream side is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Shimuta, Hidekazu Kitaura, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Masahiro Kuroishi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Koki Shinohara, Kenji Hatama, Takashi Yoshioka
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Patent number: 12014370Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: a registration unit (12) that recognizes, based on image processing, product discrimination information of a product picked up from a product placing space, and registers the recognized product discrimination information in association with customer discrimination information; and a settlement unit (13) that executes, when it is detected, based on image processing, that a customer having picked up the product performs a predetermined action, a settlement based on a registration content resulting from the registration unit (12).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kan Arai, Azusa Furukawa, Kei Shibuya, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Makiko Akiguchi, Ken Hanazawa
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Patent number: 12000131Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part thereof, and a water drainage socket that is connected thereto and includes a back side R part that changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from an upper side is directed to a front side, a front side R part that is provided on a downstream side of the back side R part and changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from a back side is directed to a lower side, a water storage part that stores a part of washing water on a flow channel from the back side R part to the front side R part, and a throttle part that is provided on a downstream side of the front side R part and decreases a cross-sectional area of a flow channel thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Tsubone, Chisato Sone, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuya Miyake, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano