Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ikeda
Hiroshi Ikeda 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: 12283109Abstract: A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoma Oami, Hiroyoshi Miyano, Yusuke Takahashi, Hiroo Ikeda, Yukie Ebiyama, Ryo Kawai, Takuya Ogawa, Kazuya Koyama, Hiroshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20250122662Abstract: A washing machine including a fixed tank; a rotary drum accommodated in the fixed tank and into which laundry is loadable; a drain configured to discharge water collected in the fixed tank; a ball balancer installed in the rotary drum; a controller; and a driver configured to rotate the rotary drum, the driver including a shaft fixed to the rotary drum, and configured to be rotatable to rotate the rotary drum, a motor including a stator and a rotor, a reducer, and a clutch configured to be switched between a first mode in which rotation of the rotor is transmitted to the shaft through the reducer, and a second mode in which the rotation of the rotor is transmitted to the shaft without passing through the reducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidekazu FUNAKOSHI, Hiroshi KATSUMOTO, Osamu KAZAMA, Yasuo IKEDA, Koichi HOSOMI
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Patent number: 12256137Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily obtaining a captured image with an appropriate angle of view with a small number of imaging apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes: a view angle candidate setting unit configured to set a plurality of candidates for an angle of view from a captured image range that can be captured by a first imaging apparatus with respect to a predetermined imaging space; and an imaging view angle setting unit configured to set an imaging angle of view of the first imaging apparatus on a basis of the plurality of candidates for the angle of view. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that captures a television broadcast program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Takashi Itou
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Publication number: 20250086018Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains system data representing a system including first objects that each undergo a state change in response to an operation and second objects that each undergo a state change in response to the state change of one or more first objects related thereto and assigning each second object a cost that changes in response to the state change. The information processing apparatus determines, for each second object, the number of unchanged first objects among the related first objects, a change in total cost caused by operating the unchanged first objects, and an index value that increases as the number of unchanged first objects decreases and increases as the change increases. The information processing apparatus generates schedule data representing an operation sequence for the first objects such that the second objects undergo the state change preferentially in descending order of index values.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hiroshi IKEDA
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Patent number: 12249049Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and an image presentation system capable of presenting a more suitable image to the interior of a vehicle. An image processing unit generates a presentation image to be presented to the interior of a second vehicle that is traveling, on the basis of a vehicle external image obtained by capturing an environment outside a first vehicle that is traveling. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a projector type presentation device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Sachiko Nishide, Miyuki Shirakawa, Tomonari Murakami, Akio Suzuki, Asami Yamagishi, Koji Nagata, Takashi Takamatsu, Maho Hayashi, Seishi Tomonaga, Toru Nagara, Hiroshi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20250074089Abstract: A technology that can improve usability while suppressing a reduction in workability in using each member is to be provided. A printing apparatus includes; a print head configured to perform printing by ejecting ink on a print medium; a frame member configured to accommodate the print head; an opening/closing member configured to pivotally move with respect to the frame member; a first storing unit configured to store ink; a first cover configured to cover the first storing unit and to be installed adjacent to side of the opening/closing member in a first direction; and a movable member configured to move with respect to the frame member and to be installed adjacent to the side of the opening/closing member in the first direction, wherein a part of the movable member and a part of the first cover form an upper surface of the printing apparatus together with the opening/closing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: TAKEHIRO NAKATA, YASUHITO TSUBAKIMOTO, AKIRA NAKASHIMA, MASAYUKI IMANO, HIROSHI YOSHINO, TORU YADA, ATSUSHI IKEDA, KOTARO IZUMIYA
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Patent number: 12233782Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that are able to appropriately superimpose content on a scene visible from within a mobile body. The information processing apparatus includes a recognition section and a display control section. The recognition section recognizes a scene visible from within the mobile body through a transparent or translucent display surface provided in the mobile body. The display control section controls display of the content on the display surface according to the recognized scene.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Maho Hayashi, Hiroshi Imamura, Mikinori Matsuda, Yuya Takayama
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Patent number: 12227517Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and found that a pyridazinyl-thiazolecarboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The pyridazinyl-thiazolecarboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., KOTOBUKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Yohei Seki, Keiichiro Okuyama, Kazuo Kurosawa, Osamu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Yoshinori Iwai, Akihiko Nakamura, Kozo Miyasaka
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Patent number: 12208462Abstract: A welding process used in a method of manufacturing a steel sheet assembly includes spot welding steel sheets performed for a heat time of 0.08 seconds or more using a convex electrode with a tip radius of curvature of 20 mm or more or a flat electrode such that the weld force F (kN) for initial 0.03 seconds of the heat time satisfies formula: F<0.00125×(1+0.75×tall)+3 where TS (MPa) denotes an average strength of the steel sheets and represents a weighted mean value of a thickness of each of the steel sheets, and tall (mm) denotes a total thickness of the steel sheets (the sum of the thicknesses of the steel sheets).Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Yasuaki Okita, Muneo Matsushita, Rinsei Ikeda, Kenji Oi
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Publication number: 20240169308Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates, based on package data in which dates, attributes of packages, and package amounts are associated and for each of the attributes, a first vector indicating statistical values for the package amounts on each of a plurality of date types. The information processing apparatus assigns, based on similarity between the first vector and each of a plurality of second vectors which correspond to a plurality of different date patterns where each date pattern indicates at least one date type out of the plurality of date types, each of the attributes to at least one date pattern out of the plurality of date patterns. The information processing apparatus generates plan data indicating delivery dispatches for delivering packages corresponding to the assigned attributes for each of at least one date pattern out of the plurality of date patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hiroshi IKEDA
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Publication number: 20240062148Abstract: A computer acquires candidate data including operation plan candidates, each indicating a candidate of at least one location by which a transporter transporting a load periodically stops and a time when the transporter stops by each of the locations, at least one operation plan candidate being defined by using a time included in a period of one cycle and a time not included in the period. The computer determines, when first and second operation plan candidates include a common location, whether transshipment of the load at the common location is possible by shifting a second time included in the second operation plan candidate by an integer multiple of the period and comparing the shifted second time with a first time included in the first operation plan candidate. The computer searches for at least two operation plan candidates for transporting the load, based on a determination result of the transshipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hiroshi IKEDA
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Patent number: 11823715Abstract: Cut-out processing for cutting out a portion of a region of a captured image, display control processing of a first screen including a captured image display region for displaying the captured image and a cut-out image display region for displaying a cut-out image cut out in the cut-out processing, display control processing for making display transition from the first screen to a second screen in which a cut-out region obtained from the captured image is set, processing for receiving a first user operation of designating, in the second screen, at least one set of coordinates and a second user operation of designating a subject, and processing for setting a cut-out region on the basis of the first user operation or the second user operation are performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
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Publication number: 20230339323Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a first selector that, when line-of-sight information indicating a direction in which a line of sight of an occupant of a vehicle is directed is outputted, selects one of a plurality of display apparatuses as a display apparatus for displaying information provided to the occupant of the vehicle, the plurality of display apparatuses being configured to display the information, the one display apparatus existing in the direction in which the line of sight is directed; and a second selector that, when the line-of-sight information is not outputted, selects, as the display apparatus for displaying the information, one of the plurality of display apparatuses to which the line of sight of the occupant is more likely to be directed than to other display apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro UCHIKOSHI, Hiroshi ANDO, Hiroshi IKEDA, Shintaro TSUBATA, Masahito OISHI
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Patent number: 11800047Abstract: One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
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Publication number: 20230325231Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. This information processing apparatus includes a first OS that controls execution of a first application, a second OS that controls execution of a second application, and a hypervisor that is executed on a processor and controls execution of the first OS and the second OS.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro UCHIKOSHI, Hiroshi ANDO, Hiroshi IKEDA, Shintaro TSUBATA, Masahito OISHI
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Publication number: 20230328355Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily obtaining a captured image with an appropriate angle of view with a small number of imaging apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes: a view angle candidate setting unit configured to set a plurality of candidates for an angle of view from a captured image range that can be captured by a first imaging apparatus with respect to a predetermined imaging space; and an imaging view angle setting unit configured to set an imaging angle of view of the first imaging apparatus on a basis of the plurality of candidates for the angle of view. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that captures a television broadcast program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Takashi ITOU
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Publication number: 20230297940Abstract: A storage medium storing an information processing program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring a first candidate group that includes candidates of operating routes of each of a plurality of mobile bodies; acquiring a second candidate group that includes candidates of delivery routes of each of packages, the delivery routes being combinations of candidates of operating routes; setting a function that uses a first variable that indicates whether to select each of the candidates included in the first candidate group and a second variable that indicates whether to select each of the candidates included in the second candidate group; determining operation and delivery routes so as to minimize the value specified by the function under a constraint that candidates of operating routes included in the combination of selected candidates of the delivery routes according to the second variable, are selected according to the first variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, HIROAKI KAMEYAMA
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Patent number: 11749309Abstract: To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11727642Abstract: Reduction of a work burden relating to generation of a virtual viewpoint image is implemented. An image processing apparatus includes a virtual viewpoint image generation section that generates, on the basis of three-dimensional information that represents an imaged imaging object in a three-dimensional space, an observation image from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional space as a virtual viewpoint image, and the virtual viewpoint image generation section sets the viewpoint that follows movement of the imaging object. This makes it possible to reduce an operation burden relating to setting of a viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: D1055083Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Yoshioka, Hiroshi Ikeda, Naoki Nomura, Takashi Ito