Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Imamura

Hiroshi Imamura 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: 12243331
    Abstract: The control device 50 includes a control unit 52 that controls a state of video projected onto a predetermined projection plane by a projector 20 provided in a space in the moving body 10 on the basis of space situation information input from a sensor that detects a space situation in the moving body 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Takamatsu, Hiroshi Imamura, Seishi Tomonaga, Koji Nagata, Toru Nagara
  • Patent number: 12233782
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Maho Hayashi, Hiroshi Imamura, Mikinori Matsuda, Yuya Takayama
  • Patent number: 12161964
    Abstract: A cylindrical heating unit of an exhaust gas processing device is installed in a reactor. The cylindrical heating unit is provided with an exhaust gas introduction port provided in an insertion base part and a heated exhaust gas outlet provided at insertion end. The cylindrical heating unit includes a hollow cylinder, insulators, electric heaters, and holding members. The hollow cylinder has a double structure with an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder made of metal. A plurality of the insulators surround the inner cylinder and are provided at intervals from each other in a heater installation space between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder. Electric heaters are mounted to the insulators. The holding members are attached to one of the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder or both and hold the insulators in the heater installation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KANKEN TECHNO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideharu Ohmae, Masamitsu Hagio, Hiroshi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20240395283
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic storage device 10 comprising: a magnetoresistive element 11 having a structure in which a recording layer 13 that includes a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer 14, and a reference layer 15 that includes a second magnetic layer are laminated; and a control unit 12, wherein the in-plane shape of the recording layer 13 is such that a rectangle circumscribing the in-plane shape and having the smallest area has a short side and a long side which have mutually different lengths, and at the time of writing to the recording layer 13, the control unit 12 applies a voltage pulse to the magnetoresistive element 11 while applying an effective magnetic field in the direction of the short side in the plane of the recording layer 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Rie MATSUMOTO, Shinji YUASA, Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240388758
    Abstract: A vehicle control system (11) has a human-machine interface (31). The human-machine interface (31) performs display control of entertainment content (CT) on the basis of a monitoring result of a passenger (PA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: KOJI MIURA, HIROSHI IMAMURA, MIKINORI MATSUDA, KENTA MIYAKAWA, TORU NAGARA, TSUYOSHI KAGOYA, KOJI NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20240367103
    Abstract: An ethylene oxide gas removal method is a method for removing ethylene oxide gas emitted into a predetermined partition space). The method includes: a first step of suctioning EO-containing air that contains ethylene oxide emitted into the partition space and supplying the EO-containing air to a concentration device; a second step of removing a water content from the suctioned EO-containing air, and thereafter adsorbing and concentrating ethylene oxide by an adsorbing material, in the concentration device; a third step of desorbing the concentrated ethylene oxide from the adsorbing material and sending the ethylene oxide to a removal device; and a fourth step of decomposing and removing ethylene oxide gas by the removal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi MORIHARA, Yoshihiko KATO, Hiroki KUZUOKA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Kazuya HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240264678
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a recording medium, and a signal processing system that enable proper recognition of an operation using a gesture. The signal processing device according to the present technology includes a setting unit configured to set a recognition method for recognizing an operation using a gesture on the basis of first vibration data indicating vibrations predicted to occur in the future, and an operation recognition unit configured to recognize the operation indicated by the gesture performed by a user in accordance with the recognition method set by the setting unit. The operation recognition unit recognizes the operation indicated by the gesture performed by the user in a vehicle equipped with the signal processing device. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a signal processing device that controls a display device provided in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: HIROSHI IMAMURA, TORU NAGARA, SEISHI TOMONAGA, TAKASHI TAKAMATSU, KOJI NAGATA, HIROSHI TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 12054111
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for analyzing a state of a vehicle occupant and performing illumination and image output control by a projector in units of a screen sectioned area of a vehicle ceiling, in accordance with an analysis result. There is provided a data processing unit configured to execute state analysis of an occupant of a vehicle and execute output control of a projector in accordance with an occupant analysis result. The data processing unit performs projector control of outputting illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with the occupant analysis result, in units of a sectioned area of a screen of a vehicle ceiling on which projector output light is outputted. The data processing unit analyzes a state of an occupant on the basis of a camera-captured image, and outputs illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with an occupant state, in units of a screen sectioned area above each occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imamura, Takashi Takamatsu, Seishi Tomonaga, Toru Nagara, Koji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240237155
    Abstract: An electric heating device includes: a radiant tube made of metal; a plurality of heater wires disposed in the radiant tube so as to be parallel to each other; a heater fixing shaft disposed on a center axis line of the radiant tube, the heater fixing shaft having a surface covered by an insulator; and disk-shaped ceramic insulators mounted to the heater fixing shaft at predetermined intervals so as to support the heater wires. A center hole in which the heater fixing shaft is inserted penetrates through each ceramic insulator at a center thereof, and heater wire holding holes that are equally spaced on a circumference concentric with the center hole penetrate through each ceramic insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi HANAFUSA, Tomoki SUZUKI, Hideharu OHMAE, Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240174174
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, 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. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a system that superimposes the content on a window of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, MAHO HAYASHI, HIROSHI IMAMURA, MIKINORI MATSUDA, YUYA TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240082782
    Abstract: A treatment device for semiconductor manufacturing exhaust gas of the present invention includes an inlet scrubber, a gas treatment furnace, and an outlet scrubber. The gas treatment furnace includes an outer cylinder having a main body that includes a gas treatment space formed therein and a gas introduction port drilled in a bottom thereof, an inner cylinder that extends across the gas treatment space such that one end thereof is mounted to the bottom inside the main body so as to enclose the gas introduction port and another end thereof is opened and located at a position close to a ceiling surface of the main body, and an electric heater that is hung from a ceiling of the main body and that has a heating element having a long bar shape placed in an internal space of the inner cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240082777
    Abstract: A cylindrical heating unit of an exhaust gas processing device is installed in a reactor. The cylindrical heating unit is provided with an exhaust gas introduction port provided in an insertion base part and a heated exhaust gas outlet provided at insertion end. The cylindrical heating unit includes a hollow cylinder, insulators, electric heaters, and holding members. The hollow cylinder has a double structure with an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder made of metal. A plurality of the insulators surround the inner cylinder and are provided at intervals from each other in a heater installation space between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder. Electric heaters are mounted to the insulators. The holding members are attached to one of the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder or both and hold the insulators in the heater installation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hideharu OHMAE, Masamitsu HAGIO, Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230417410
    Abstract: A gas processing furnace according to the present invention includes: a hollow cylindrical furnace body including a gas processing space therein; a non-transferred plasma jet torch for supplying a plasma jet into the gas processing space; and an electric heater for heating a region of the gas processing space to which the plasma jet is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230234523
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for analyzing a state of a vehicle occupant and performing illumination and image output control by a projector in units of a screen sectioned area of a vehicle ceiling, in accordance with an analysis result. There is provided a data processing unit configured to execute state analysis of an occupant of a vehicle and execute output control of a projector in accordance with an occupant analysis result. The data processing unit performs projector control of outputting illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with the occupant analysis result, in units of a sectioned area of a screen of a vehicle ceiling on which projector output light is outputted. The data processing unit analyzes a state of an occupant on the basis of a camera-captured image, and outputs illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with an occupant state, in units of a screen sectioned area above each occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: HIROSHI IMAMURA, TAKASHI TAKAMATSU, SEISHI TOMONAGA, TORU NAGARA, KOJI NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20230233982
    Abstract: A gas processing furnace according to the present invention includes: a heater body filled with an electric heating element; and a tubular gas passage passing through the heater body. The gas processing furnace includes: a block-like heater body extending in the up-down direction and filled with the electric heating element; gas passages passing through the heater body in the up-down direction, the gas passages being consecutively disposed or extended in the front-back direction, the gas passages being arranged so as to form a plurality of arrays parallel to each other in the right-left direction, in a plan view; and a headbox mounted at an upper end portion of the heater body and configured to allow the gas passages to communicate with each other via a communication space formed inside the headbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230219495
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a first acquisition section that acquires first illuminance information indicating illuminance of an inside of a moving body, a second acquisition section that acquires second illuminance information indicating illuminance to be compared with the first illuminance information, and a light adjusting control section that controls a light adjustment by a device included in the moving body on a basis of a result of a comparison between illuminance of the first illuminance information and illuminance of the second illuminance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAMATSU, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Seishi TOMONAGA, Koji NAGATA, Toru NAGARA
  • Publication number: 20230206085
    Abstract: A processing device includes: a first processing unit that refers to function data including a labeling function that labels an input dataset or abstain if it cannot label, to output first output data that associates each input dataset with a probability of corresponding to each label from a result of labeling the input dataset by the labeling function; and an identifying unit that identifies an input dataset in which a variation in the probability of corresponding to each label in the first output data satisfies a predetermined condition among the input datasets. A labeling function newly created for the input dataset identified from the first output data by the identifying unit is inserted into the function data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Takeshi OGURO, Jingyu SUN, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Susumu TAKEUCHI, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Publication number: 20230186651
    Abstract: The control device 50 includes a control unit 52 that controls a state of video projected onto a predetermined projection plane by a projector 20 provided in a space in the moving body 10 on the basis of space situation information input from a sensor that detects a space situation in the moving body 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAMATSU, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Seishi TOMONAGA, Koji NAGATA, Toru NAGARA
  • Patent number: 11504669
    Abstract: The present invention provides an energy-efficient method and apparatus that can achieve exhaust gas abatement with a minimum use of diluent nitrogen gas. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for exhaust gas abatement under reduced pressure, in which an exhaust gas supplied from an exhaust gas source via a vacuum pump is decomposed by heat of a high-temperature plasma under a reduced pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KANKEN TECHNO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiko Yanagisawa, Tsutomu Tsukada, Hiroshi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220346697
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes an electromyography acquiring unit 21 configured to generate electromyography data 11 indicating the time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode 2 set on each of left and right muscles which are paired of an exerciser performing an exercise in which the left and right muscles are alternately used, and an evaluation unit 23 configured to calculate and output a switching index indicating that left and right muscles are alternately used, from an electromyography of the left muscle and an electromyography of the right muscle acquired at an identical time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu SAISHO, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Atsunori MIHARA