Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Nishimura

Hitoshi Nishimura 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: 20250148649
    Abstract: A mesh decoding device (200) includes: a circuit that decodes a displacement bit stream to generate and output a displacement, wherein the circuit: decodes a level value from the displacement bit stream, generates a transformed coefficient by inversely quantizing the level value, and generates the displacement by applying an inverse wavelet transform to the transformed coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Kei KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250148646
    Abstract: A mesh decoding device includes: a circuit that decodes a displacement bit stream to generate and output a displacement, wherein the circuit: outputs a video by decoding the displacement bit stream by video encoding, develops and outputs the video as a level value for each image, generates a transformed coefficient by inversely quantizing the level values, and generates the displacement by applying an inverse wavelet transform to the transformed coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Kei KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250025956
    Abstract: A welding system includes a tip that biases a welding wire and has a forced power supply mechanism for supplying power to the welding wire at a distal end, a torch including the tip at a distal end, the torch supplying the welding wire toward a welded portion, an automatic machine that holds the torch, and a welding wire straightener attached to the automatic machine, the welding wire straightener correcting a bending tendency of the welding wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: YOICHI FUKUMITSU, ATSUHIRO KAWAMOTO, KAITO MATSUI, JUNJI FUJIWARA, HITOSHI NISHIMURA, YUYA FURUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240408493
    Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: David Wong, Hitoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240387820
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material is provided and includes a lithium nickel composite oxide. The lithium nickel composite oxide has a composition formula represented by LiaNixCoyAl1-x-yO2, x is 0.8 or more and 1 or less, y is 0 or more and 0.2 or less, and a is 0.8 or more and 1.05 or less. Lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate are contained in a supernatant of a stirred product of the positive electrode active material and pure water in a total amount of 1.0 mass % or less with respect to the positive electrode active material, when measured by a potentiometric titration method. In the positive electrode active material, an intensity ratio of a peak top in 850 eV or more and 854 eV or less to a peak top in 854 eV or more and 860 eV or less is 1.05 or more and 1.45 or less in an X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectrum for an L-absorption edge of nickel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yukihiro KATOU, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Shota FUJINAKA, Akiko NAGAHARA, Gerile NAREN, Hideki NAKAI
  • Patent number: 12097431
    Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: David Wong, Hitoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11806812
    Abstract: A detector is configured to detect an output of a reflected beam from an exit end surface of a parallel plate. A determination unit is configured to determine that an abnormality occurs in the parallel plate when a detection value of the detector is smaller than a determination threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nishio, Jingbo Wang, Hitoshi Nishimura, Motoki Morioka
  • Publication number: 20230256339
    Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: David Wong, Hitoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230256340
    Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations. According to a first aspect of this specification, there is described a computer implemented method comprising: inputting, into an encoder neural network, input data comprising a plurality of input pose parameters indicative of one or more poses of an in-game object in an animation; generating, by the encoder neural network, one or more encoded representations of the one or more poses of the in-game object from the input data; and determining a quality score for a pose of the one or more poses of an in-game object based on the one or more encoded representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nishimura, Ryan Cardinal
  • Patent number: 11565345
    Abstract: Laser processing device (1) includes: laser-beam switching apparatus (70) that switches between a first optical path and a second optical path as an optical path along which a laser beam is to travel, the first optical path including first fiber (11), the second optical path including second fiber (21) that has a core diameter that is larger than a core diameter of first fiber (11); and processing head (80) that illuminates a same processed point on workpiece (900) with a laser beam that has passed through the first optical path or the second optical path. When illumination with laser beam that has passed through the first optical path is performed for a predetermined period of time, laser-beam switching apparatus (70) switches from the first optical path to the second optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Makoto Ryudo, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Ryo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11473582
    Abstract: A package-type compressor includes a body unit, a controller, a casing, a first cooling air inlet, a second cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, a fan duct, a cooling fan, an air cooling type heat exchanger, a machine chamber, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is provided below the fan duct, the cooling duct causing the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller toward the suction port of the fan duct. A vertical projection plane of the cooling fan overlaps the machine chamber and the cooling duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sadakata, Toshikazu Harashima, Hitoshi Nishimura, Kentaro Yamamoto, Masahiko Takano
  • Publication number: 20220312732
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an animal garment and an animal biological information measurement apparatus that are excellently comfortable. The animal garment includes a knitted fabric, the knitted fabric containing 2 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less of antifungal fibers, and 30 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less of fibers having a single fiber fineness of 0.3 dtex or more and 1.1 dtex or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOBO CO., LTD., TOYOBO STC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko KOMATSU, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Daichi YAMAMOTO, Shohei TOCHINO, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Nobuhiro KURODA, Hiroyuki MORII, Yuichiro OMOTE, Hideki KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 11333833
    Abstract: There is provided an optical axis alignment mechanism between the laser oscillator and the optical fiber. The laser oscillator emits laser light, which then emerges from the emission end of the optical fiber via the axis alignment mechanism. Part of the laser light is received on the light-receiving surface of the CCD camera of a laser light evaluator. Thus, the laser light evaluator acquires a light intensity distribution. The light intensity distribution is used by the optical axis alignment mechanism to align the axis of the laser oscillator with the axis of the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Eizumi, Makoto Ryudo, Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Ryo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11285564
    Abstract: A laser processing head includes parallel plate (17) that shifts an optical axis of a laser beam to be emitted from a top to a bottom of body case (6) from a first optical axis to a second optical axis, parallel plate (19) that shift the optical axis of the laser beam from the second optical axis to a third optical axis, and body case (6) that accommodates holders (7 and 18) that respectively hold parallel plates (17 and 19). The laser processing head further includes a rotation mechanism that rotates holders (7 and 18) around a first rotary axis. Opening (7a) that a laser beam reflected by an incident surface of second parallel plate (19) passes through is formed in holder (7), and light receiving part (6a) that receives the laser beam having passed through opening (7a) is disposed in body case (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ryudo, Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Ryo Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210388859
    Abstract: A joint structure includes a first metallic material having a first projection, a second metallic material similar to and weldable to the first metallic material, and a different material having a first penetrating part and sandwiched between the first and second metallic materials, the different material being difficult to weld to the first and second metallic materials. The first projection is smaller than the first penetrating part and is spaced from the rim of the first penetrating part. The first projection is positioned in the first penetrating part and spaced from the second metallic material by a gap. The gap has a size of a predetermined percentage of the thickness of the first projection to which arc welding is applied. The first and second metallic materials are melted and joined together inside the first penetrating part to compress and fix the different material, so all three are fixed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Junji FUJIWARA, Atsuhiro KAWAMOTO, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Yasushi MUKAI, Shigeki YONEMORI
  • Patent number: 11113860
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of a particle-based inverse kinematic analysis system. The inverse kinematic system can utilize a neural network, also referred to as a deep neural network, which utilizes machine learning processes in order to create poses that are more life-like and realistic. The system can generate prediction models using motion capture data. The motion capture data can be aggregated and analyzed in order to train the neural network. The neural network can determine rules and constraints that govern how joints and connectors of a character model move in order to create realistic motion of the character model within the game application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventors: Paolo Rigiroli, Hitoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11060905
    Abstract: A laser device includes: a laser resonator for emitting a laser beam; a condenser lens for collecting the laser beam emitted from the laser resonator; an optical fiber for transmitting the laser beam collected by the condenser lens; at least one light sensor opposing a light receiving surface of the condenser lens and outside an optical path of the laser beam, the at least one light sensor detecting an amount of return light from the condenser lens; and a controller for determining a presence of an abnormality when a value of the amount detected by the at least one light sensor is greater than a predetermined maximum threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Doukei Nagayasu, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Hitoshi Nishimura, Makoto Ryudo, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Ryo Ishikawa, Masatoshi Nishio, Takasi Kakutani, Yasushi Mukai, Mitsuru Mukai, Hiroyuki Hayashikawa
  • Publication number: 20210146481
    Abstract: A first detector detects an output of a reflected beam from an exit end surface of a first parallel plate. A determination unit determines that an abnormality occurs in the first parallel plate when the detection value of the first detector is smaller than a predetermined determination threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Masatoshi NISHIO, Jingbo WANG, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Motoki MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 10981246
    Abstract: A laser welding method according to the present disclosure includes a step in which a third material is interposed between a first material and a second material, which are made of the same type of metal so as to be weldable to one another, and at least one of which is provided with a protruding portion, wherein the third material is difficult to weld to the first material and the second material and has a through-hole portion into which the protruding portion is inserted. The method also includes a step in which, when the third material is interposed between the first material and the second material, a region corresponding to the protruding portion is irradiated with a laser beam from the first material side, and the first material and the second material are welded via the through-hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kawamoto, Junji Fujiwara, Yasushi Mukai, Hitoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210102540
    Abstract: A package-type compressor includes a body unit, a controller, a casing, a first cooling air inlet, a second cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, a fan duct, a cooling fan, an air cooling type heat exchanger, a machine chamber, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is provided below the fan duct, the cooling duct causing the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller toward the suction port of the fan duct. A vertical projection plane of the cooling fan overlaps the machine chamber and the cooling duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Kosuke SADAKATA, Toshikazu HARASHIMA, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Kentaro YAMAMOTO, Masahiko TAKANO