Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Watanabe

Hiroshi Watanabe 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).

  • Publication number: 20250103134
    Abstract: A computer performs processing including: generating an image to be presented to a driver in a preset coordinate system; identifying a display position at which the generated image is displayed in a field of vision of a driver, based on a viewpoint position of the driver; generating a driver viewpoint image obtained by converting the generated image to an image represented in a coordinate system defined with the viewpoint position as a reference; causing the driver viewpoint image to be displayed in such a manner that the driver viewpoint image overlaps a field of vision of the driver; detecting a line of sight of the driver; and when determining that a change amount of the detected line of sight exceeds a threshold value, suppressing change in a position at which the driver viewpoint image is displayed occurring in association with change in the viewpoint position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250091532
    Abstract: A first structure in which connection strength between an air impermeable layer and a compressed fiber layer is relatively low and a second structure in which connection strength between the air impermeable layer and the compressed fiber layer is higher than the connection strength of the first structure. A vehicular compartment soundproofing structure includes the second structure that has good soundproofing performance in a high frequency band (1000 Hz or higher) and the first structure that has improved soundproofing performance in a middle frequency band with suppressing lowering of insertion loss in the middle frequency band (200 Hz to 630 Hz). Accordingly, the soundproofing performance of a whole vehicular compartment can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIHON TOKUSHU TORYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro NAGANO, Yuji WATANABE, Hiroshi KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250092914
    Abstract: A first piece (13) includes a first ring portion (13b) and a second ring portion (13c) which are arranged side by side in an axial direction and an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the first ring portion (13b) are respectively larger than an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the second ring portion (13c). A second piece (16) is obtained by pressing the first piece (13) while the first piece (13) is disposed between a first set and a second set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei MORI, Mizuki WATANABE, Isao SHINTOU, Hiroshi KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250082610
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a technique to effectively inhibit microorganism growth in an oral composition and the like. The present invention relates to a composition containing (A) L-ergothioneine or a salt thereof and (B) quercetin or a glycoside thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12247993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen measurement method for measuring platelet aggregation of a specimen, and the specimen measurement method includes: automatically preparing a diluted reagent solution that contains a platelet-aggregating reagent diluted with a diluent; preparing a measurement sample that contains a predetermined concentration of the platelet-aggregating reagent, from the diluted reagent solution and the specimen; and performing optical measurement of the measurement sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kurono, Tasuku Sakayori, Yuri Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250078425
    Abstract: Provided are a program and the like, in which it is possible to display a globe in a photographed image and three-dimensionally display a cloud at the corresponding position. A program according to one aspect causes a computer to execute processing of acquiring an altitude of a cloud at each position, and displaying, when a globe of a reality space is held up, a globe of a first virtual space, in response to a movement of the globe of the reality space, while three-dimensionally displaying a cloud according to a specified altitude at a corresponding position on the first virtual space. Accordingly, it is possible to display the globe in the photographed image and three-dimensionally display the cloud at the corresponding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Masashi Seiki, Hiroshi Goto, Tomonori Taguchi, Yutaro Chino, Yoshito Fukuda, Jou Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250072855
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus including: an imaging table that has a placement surface on which a breast is placed; a protective cover that includes a first magnetic object at a predetermined first position and is mounted on the placement surface; and a sample tray that includes a second magnetic object and a housing part of a sample and is placed on the placement surface via the protective cover, the second magnetic object being attracted to the first magnetic object by a magnetic force, wherein the sample tray is configured to be magnetically attached to the predetermined first position of the protective cover by the first magnetic object and the second magnetic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Shunsuke NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250079112
    Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus capable of realizing a highly reliable insulating structure. This charged particle beam apparatus emits a charged particle beam from a charged particle beam emission device onto a sample, detects charged particles generated from the sample, and creates a sample image or processes the sample. The charged particle beam emission device is provided with a charged particle source and a shield arranged in an interior of a metal housing that is filled with an insulating gas, and an acceleration electrode arranged below the charged particle source, power being supplied to the acceleration electrode via the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi MORITA, Takashi KUBO, Minoru SAKAMAKI, Shuhei ISHIKAWA, Shunichi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250074492
    Abstract: The wheeled platform of the present disclosure includes a base on which an object is placed; wheels attached to the base; a lock device having a latch that is lockable to a striker that is fixed; a guide member configured to guide the striker to a position where the striker is lockable to the latch; and a wheeled platform side terminal contactable with a fixed side terminal disposed on a member to which the striker is fixed, the wheeled platform side terminal being disposed at a position where the wheeled platform side terminal is contactable with the fixed side terminal when the latch locks the striker. The wheeled platform is configured such that the guide member comes in contact with the striker before the wheeled platform side terminal comes in contact with the fixed side terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSUJI, Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Akari WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250070700
    Abstract: The objective is to accurately estimate the electrical constants required for control of a three-phase induction motor for which the electrical constants are unknown. To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, a three-phase induction motor, a fixing mechanism that can fix the rotation axis of the three-phase induction motor, an inverter that drives the three-phase induction motor, a current detection means that detects the current of the three-phase induction motor, the current detection means for detecting the current of the three-phase induction motor and control the three-phase induction motor by using the inverter, wherein the inverter controls the three-phase induction motor with the rotating shaft fixed by the fixing mechanism, energizes DC current and three-phase AC current, and measures the electrical constant of the three-phase induction motor using the control voltage obtained as a result of the energization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Yusaku ONUMA, Takuya SUGIMOTO, Yoshitaka IWAJI
  • Publication number: 20250067988
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mitsunobu WATANABE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20250070531
    Abstract: A surface emitting laser that allows for improved heat dissipation is provided. The surface emitting laser according to the present technology includes a semiconductor multilayer film reflector, a reflector, an active layer provided between the semiconductor multilayer film reflector and the reflector, a metal film provided at a back surface of the semiconductor multilayer film reflector which is a surface on an opposite side to the side of the active layer or having a part provided on a virtual surface including the back surface on the opposite side to the side of the active layer and a further part provided in and/or around the semiconductor multilayer film reflector. According to the present technology a surface emitting laser that allows for improved heat dissipation can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: MIKIHIRO YOKOZEKI, YOSHIRO TAKIGUCHI, HIROSHI NAKAJIMA, TOMOMASA WATANABE, MICHINORI SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20250070868
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide an optical node, a remote control system, and a remote control method capable of improving a communication speed of an uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KAWANO, Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazunori KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250071362
    Abstract: For establishing cooperation among an external device 30, a video display device and a remote control terminal and to achieve cooperative operation among these devices that affords a high level of operability to a user with less burden, the video display device to which an external device and a remote control terminal that remotely operates the external device can be connected, comprising: a connection detection section configured to detect a connection of the external device to the video display device; a cooperation establishment section configured to generate a start signal for initiate an application software accepting an operation instruction to the external device on the remote control terminal when the connection detection section detects the connection of the external device; and a communication interface configured to transmit the start signal to the remote control terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Akira ISHIYAMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Mitsunobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250071330
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus is an image decoding apparatus for decoding an image from coded data, and includes at least a supplemental information decoder for decoding supplemental information indicating at least one of a position, a size, or a type of a recognition target of a decoded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: TAKESHI CHUJOH, TOMOHIRO IKAI, Takuya SUZUKI, YUKINOBU YASUGI, HIROSHI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250070636
    Abstract: The present invention adjusts the surge voltage of a switching element to a prescribed value or lower while reducing switching loss in accordance with an operation condition. The present invention includes a gate driving circuit unit that drives a semiconductor switching element and a feedback current control unit that applies, to a gate G of the semiconductor switching element, a feedback current which is calculated by multiplying the change rate of electricity applied by the gate driving circuit unit to the semiconductor switching element by a prescribed gain, in which the change rate of electricity is the time change rate of the voltage and/or current applied to the semiconductor switching element; and the feedback current control unit adjusts the surge voltage of the semiconductor switching element by changing the gain in accordance with an operation condition of the semiconductor switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hangxian GAO, So WATANABE, Hiroshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 12232660
    Abstract: There is provided a bathtub apparatus capable of satisfactorily detecting an electrocardiographic signal even in a state where water is being discharged into a bathtub by a water discharge device. The present invention is a bathtub apparatus (1) including a bathtub main body (2), a water discharge device (8) that discharges water toward inside of the bathtub main body and is provided above a first inner wall surface (2a) forming a short side of the bathtub main body, and electrodes (4a, 4b, 4c) attached to the bathtub main body to detect an electrocardiographic signal of a bathing person, where the electrodes are arranged on an inner wall surface of the bathtub main body, and are arranged closer to the first inner wall surface than a position (P) where water discharged from the water discharge device hits a water surface of the water stored in the bathtub main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuboi, Koji Sonoda, Kei Watanabe, Yu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Enoki, Kensuke Azuma, Ryoko Uno, Mao Jinde, Yuwa Ishii, Kenji Furukawa, Hiroki Kurita
  • Patent number: 12227517
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 12230441
    Abstract: A transport device and a transport method efficiently increase a thrust to suppress power consumption. The transport device has a first magnetic body on a side of a to-be-transported object, a magnetic circuit with a core consisting of a second magnetic body, and a winding wound around an outside of the core, and a drive circuit supplying a current to the winding of the magnetic circuit. The magnetic circuit has first and second magnetic circuits, and in a case where the first magnetic body is located on a side of the second magnetic circuit relative to a first predetermined position between the first magnetic circuit and the second magnetic circuit, the drive circuit supplies a current to a winding of the first magnetic circuit in such a manner to cause an electromagnetic repulsive force to be generated between the first magnetic body and the first magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Katsuhiro Kambara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniaki Onizawa
  • Publication number: 20250043556
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ryohei OKABE, Kenji HATAMA, Kenji WATANABE, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO