Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu 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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Publication number: 20230156935Abstract: An in-vehicle electrical component circuit unit : includes an electrically insulative holding body configured to hold a circuit member ;a plate wall portion configured to cover a casing through hole provided in an in-vehicle electrical component ; a connector including a connection member that is held by the plate wall portion ; and a sealing member (126) that is provided on a first surface , which is a surface of the plate wall portion that is to be attached to the casing (132), and is configured to come into contact with a peripheral edge of the casing through hole , wherein a portion of the connection member that protrudes on a first surface side includes a circuit-side connection portion (120), the circuit-side connection portion is detachably connectable to the circuit member , and the circuit-side connection portion is inserted into the casing through hole from outside the casing and connected to the circuit memberType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230156268Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the video data of the digital broadcast program, the program-cooperation data, and the screen layout control information; a video generating unit configured to divide a video display region for a video to be outputted into a plurality of regions on the basis of the screen layout control information, arrange program video information and other information in each of the plurality of regions, and generate video information; a display unit configured to display the output video information; and a control unit which can, where there is no effective screen layout control information control the video generating unit so as not to divide the video display region and to generate the program video information as the output video information until effective screen layout control information is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Nobuo MASUOKA, Toshiyuki KURITA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yusuke UCHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230155308Abstract: Provided is a relay connector including a relay terminal including a first connection portion configured to connect to a first device side terminal and a second connection portion configured to connect to a second device side terminal; a clamping member including a first clamping portion configured to clamp the first device side terminal together with the first connection portion and a second clamping portion configured to clamp the second device side terminal together with the second connection portion; a lower case configured to hold the relay terminal; and an upper case configured to hold the clamping member, wherein a connector case includes a first insertion opening and a second insertion opening; and guide portions are formed on the clamping member, the guide portions guiding the first device side terminal inserted from the first insertion opening and the second device side terminal inserted from the second insertion opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuki FUJIMURA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Hitoshi TAKEDA, Yusuke ISAJI
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Patent number: 11653081Abstract: An imaging method is provided that includes: taking an image of an object to generate an image signal of the object; generating a taken image of the object on a basis of the image signal; detecting motion information of the object on the basis of the image signal; taking an image of the object on a basis of the motion information multiple times so as to differentiate an exposure amount thereof and generating an HDR synthetic image of the object on the basis of a plurality of image signals whose exposure amounts are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Ishiyama, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Mitsunobu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230136003Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that realizes more suitable ease of use. To accomplish the purpose, there is provided an information processing device provided with a video input unit for acquiring image data from an optical image, a signal receiver unit for acquiring a position computation signal, a communication unit for transmitting the image data, a first memory unit for storing position information pertaining to a place to which the image data is not transmitted, and a control unit for controlling the execution of image data transmission on the basis of the position information acquired from the position calculation signal and the position information stored in the first storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Motoyuki SUZUKI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Shigetaka KIMURA, Shinji SHIBUYA
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Publication number: 20230130220Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Mitsunobu WATANABE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230125116Abstract: A kneading apparatus includes a processor, and a extruder. The extruder includes a screw. The screw includes a screw main body. A conveyance portion, a barrier portion, and a path are provided at places of the screw main body. In at least one of the places, the path is provided inside the screw main body, and includes an entrance and an exit. The raw materials, pressure on which is increased by the barrier portion, flow in from the entrance. The raw materials flowing in from the entrance flow through the path toward the exit. The exit is positioned to be remote from the entrance in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD., HSP Technologies Inc.Inventors: Akiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Shigeyuki FUJII, Takafumi SAMESHIMA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11627007Abstract: When a first user makes a video call with a second user of the other side by using the video call function, a first state is set as a state in which the enclosure is flatly placed on a first surface of an object, and in which a face of the first user is included within a range of an angle of view AV1 of the front camera C1. In the first state, the mobile information terminal 1 detects a first region including the face of the first user from a wide angle image that is captured by the front camera C1, trims a first image corresponding to the first region, creates a transmission image to be transmitted to a terminal of the other side on the basis of the first image, and transmits the transmission image to the terminal of the other side.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiroaki Ono, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa, Nobuo Masuoka
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Publication number: 20230104041Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: a driver circuit configured to operate on a power voltage supplied from an internal power supply line; a first external power supply line supplied with a first external power voltage; a second external power supply line supplied with a second external power voltage; a plurality of first switch circuits coupled between the first external power supply line and the internal power supply line, the plurality of first switch circuits being arranged on a plurality of first circuit areas; and a plurality of second switch circuits coupled between the second external power supply line and the internal power supply line, the plurality of second switch circuits being arranged on a plurality of second circuit areas. The plurality of first circuit areas and the plurality of second circuit areas are arranged in a first direction in a predetermined order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Yuki Miura
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Publication number: 20230101985Abstract: The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Ikuya ARAI
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Publication number: 20230097731Abstract: A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11609482Abstract: An imaging apparatus has: an imaging optical system; an imaging element configured to receive light transmitted through the imaging optical system to generate an electric signal; a main body; a display device provided on a back face of the main body and capable of displaying an image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element; and an electronic viewfinder provided inside the main body and capable of displaying the image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element, wherein an eyepiece part of the electronic viewfinder is provided to a transmissive region of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryuji Nishimura
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Publication number: 20230075223Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230057127Abstract: When an SIP server receives a call signal addressed to a callee side terminal, the SIP server transmits a warning signal to the callee side terminal before transmitting the call signal to the callee side terminal when an international call identifier indicating that the call signal passes through a foreign country is set in the call signal. In addition, when the SIP server receives the call signal addressed to the callee side terminal, the SIP server includes a warning that the caller number is disguised in a warning signal when an international call identifier indicating that the call signal passes through a foreign country is set in the call signal and the caller number of the call signal is a number from a country in which the callee side terminal is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Shun SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230059108Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
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Patent number: 11589095Abstract: A content viewing method uses a viewing system including a content distribution server distributing contents, a mobile information terminal, and a viewing device reproducing a content. The mobile information terminal transmits user identification information and a user password to the content distribution server. The content distribution server authenticates the mobile information terminal based on the user identification information and the user password. The mobile information terminal transmits an account issue request requesting an account for reproducing a desired content to the content distribution server. The content distribution server issues the account based on the account issue request and transmits the account to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal stores the account. The mobile information terminal transmits the account by short-range wireless communication. The viewing device stores the account received by short-range wireless communication.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinori Okada
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Patent number: 11584830Abstract: In a production method for a conductive composite material for an extruder that continuously discharges a kneaded product produced by kneading a raw material using a screw, the screw has a the screw body, the raw material transported along an outer circumferential surface of the screw body receives increased pressure by a barrier part in a transport part and is introduced to a passage from an inlet, and while the kneaded product is continuously discharged, the raw material transported along the outer circumferential surface of the screw body flows in the passage of the extruder and then is guided to the transport part via an outlet provided in the screw body, the raw material contains a conductive filler and a thermoplastic elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD., HSP TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Takafumi Sameshima, Yoshio Iizuka, Kaho Osada, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230051401Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a suitable user-friendliness to a user regarding a recommendation of application software on a portable information terminal. In order to accomplish the purpose, this portable information terminal is configured to set an application as a recommendation candidate when the status of the portable information terminal matches a condition corresponding to the application, and recommend the application when the application further matches a pre-set recommendation permitting condition. Hence, the portable information terminal and the application recommending method thereof capable of providing a preferable user-friendliness to the user can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Hideyuki KUWAJIMA
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Publication number: 20230040295Abstract: In payment using biometric authentication, a customer-friendly technology with a high degree of freedom for customers to select a payment destination is provided. The present invention provides a biometric authentication payment system including: a biometric information acquisition device that acquires biometric information of a customer; a reception section that receives designation of a payment system of a payment destination; a transmission section that transmits the biometric information and a payment amount to the payment system; an authentication section that performs authentication using the transmitted biometric information, and a payment section that performs the payment of the payment amount when the authentication result is successful in authentication, and when a payment destination is designated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11575960Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the video data of the digital broadcast program, the program-cooperation data, and the screen layout control information; a video generating unit configured to divide a video display region for a video to be outputted into a plurality of regions on the basis of the screen layout control information, arrange program video information and other information in each of the plurality of regions, and generate video information; a display unit configured to display the output video information; and a control unit which can, where there is no effective screen layout control information control the video generating unit so as not to divide the video display region and to generate the program video information as the output video information until effective screen layout control information is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Nobuo Masuoka, Toshiyuki Kurita, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yusuke Uchiyama