Patents by Inventor Jun Kobayashi
Jun Kobayashi 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: 12042067Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
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Publication number: 20240208318Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery-side connector and a cover that protects the battery-side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body-side connector electrically connectable to the battery-side connector. The cover exposes the battery-side connector when the battery-side connector is fit to the vehicle body-side connector in a fitting direction in which the vehicle body-side connector and the battery-side connector are fit to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240190268Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body on which a battery is mountable and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector to be engaged with the battery side connector. The battery side connector is made of a material having a lower hardness than a material constituting the vehicle body side connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240190230Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector electrically connectable to the battery side connector and a holding portion that holds the vehicle body side connector. The holding portion holds the vehicle body side connector as being movable along a fitting direction in which the vehicle body side connector and the battery side connector are fitted to each other while the battery side connector is connected to the vehicle body side connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Publication number: 20240178276Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type and including a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, a plurality of element structures formed in the first surface of the semiconductor layer at equal intervals in one direction, and a super junction structure formed in the semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi IWAHASHI, Jun KOBAYASHI, Kazuyoshi MAKI
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Publication number: 20240144310Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240013257Abstract: An output control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a person is a specific person, a processing unit configured to acquire position information of the person, and an output control unit configured to cause a first output device located in the vicinity of the person to output information according to the person on the basis of personal information about the person determined to be the specific person by the determination unit and the position information acquired by the processing unit, wherein the output control unit is configured to cause a second output device to output the information output by the first output device in continuation with the output of the first output device if the person has moved from the vicinity of the first output device to the vicinity of the second output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigetsu Saito, Jun Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230404296Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Shigetsu SAITO
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Publication number: 20230389725Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Shigetsu SAITO
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Patent number: 11786058Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
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Patent number: 11790402Abstract: An output control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a person is a specific person, a processing unit configured to acquire position information of the person, and an output control unit configured to cause a first output device located in the vicinity of the person to output information according to the person on the basis of personal information about the person determined to be the specific person by the determination unit and the position information acquired by the processing unit, wherein the output control unit is configured to cause a second output device to output the information output by the first output device in continuation with the output of the first output device if the person has moved from the vicinity of the first output device to the vicinity of the second output device.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigetsu Saito, Jun Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230301447Abstract: An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Shigetsu SAITO
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Publication number: 20230253473Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a super junction structure, includes: forming a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming a second-conductivity-type pillar region in the semiconductor layer; forming an insulating layer which covers the second surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a metal layer on the insulating layer; forming a gate electrode including a first opening passing through the metal layer by selectively removing the metal layer; and etching the insulating layer via the first opening, wherein the etching the insulating layer includes partially exposing the semiconductor layer by forming a second opening having a curved sidewall in the insulating layer by isotropic etching, and wherein an exposed surface of the semiconductor layer forms a flat surface continuous with the second surface of the semiconductor layer covered with the insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: So NAGAKURA, Jun KOBAYASHI, Satoshi IWAHASHI, Kazuyoshi MAKI, Shu NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20230041259Abstract: An output control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a person is a specific person, a processing unit configured to acquire position information of the person, and an output control unit configured to cause a first output device located in the vicinity of the person to output information according to the person on the basis of personal information about the person determined to be the specific person by the determination unit and the position information acquired by the processing unit, wherein the output control unit is configured to cause a second output device to output the information output by the first output device in continuation with the output of the first output device if the person has moved from the vicinity of the first output device to the vicinity of the second output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigetsu SAITO, Jun Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230045358Abstract: An underwater organism imaging aid system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes, at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect an underwater organism from an image acquired by a camera, determine a positional relationship between the underwater organism detected and the camera, and output auxiliary information for moving the camera in such a way that a side face of the underwater organism and an imaging face of the camera face each other based on the positional relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Jun KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11480002Abstract: A tailgate control system for a vehicle includes a spindle and a coupling member fixedly coupled to a tailgate of the vehicle, the coupling member having a slot formed therein. A portion of the spindle is coupled to the coupling member via the slot so as to enable relative movement between the portion of the spindle and the coupling member along the slot, and such that extension of the spindle causes a force on the coupling member which causes a closing motion of the tailgate. The portion of the spindle is also coupled to the coupling member such that a manually-generated closing motion of the tailgate causes a change in a position of the portion of the spindle along the slot.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Norman C. Kerr
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Patent number: 11461733Abstract: A behavior analysis device includes an approach information acquisition unit configured to acquire approach information indicating whether or not a person has approached a shelf on which a plurality of goods are displayed, a determination unit configured to determine as stockout information a position of a stockout item which is out of stock among the plurality of goods displayed on the shelf and a stockout of the stockout item, and an analysis unit configured to perform behavior analysis of the person on the basis of the approach information and the stockout information.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Shigetsu Saito
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Publication number: 20220250563Abstract: An autonomous driving module mounting structure, includes a roof panel configuring an upper portion of a vehicle body, an open portion provided at the roof panel, and an autonomous driving module that includes a plurality of devices, that is mounted on an upper surface of an outer section of the roof panel, and that is disposed at a position that does not coincide with the open portion in top view.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventor: Jun Kobayashi
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Patent number: D974203Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventors: Jun Kobayashi, Norihiko Tadata
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Patent number: D987458Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kobayashi, Norihiko Tadata