Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro HIRAI

Katsuhiro HIRAI 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: 20200315141
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a state determiner that determines a state of an animal using a captured image of the animal; a feeling determiner that determines a feeling of the animal corresponding to the state of the animal determined by the state determiner, on the basis of a notification wording DB indicating a relationship between the state and the feeling of the animal; and a notification processor that notifies user terminal 4 of a wording indicating the feeling of the animal determined by the feeling determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Naotaka KUSUI, Katsumi KOMATSU, Shinji FUKUDA, Katsuhiro HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20190197817
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus includes a housing, first to nth (n is an integer of 2 or more) segments which are arranged in order in the housing along the circumference direction so as to surround a center line, a drive unit configured to rotate an aggregate of the first to nth segments about the center line, an input unit configured to receive an instruction, and a control unit configured to control the drive unit. The housing is provided with a cleaning position that allows at least one of the first to nth segments to be cleaned. The input unit may receive an instruction for selecting one of the first to nth segments. The control unit causes the drive unit to locate the selected segment at the cleaning position on the basis of the instruction for selecting one of the first to nth segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Takazono Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujii, Katsuhiro Hirai
  • Patent number: 10264524
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, the slave device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the master device, a power supply unit that supplies power to each unit of the slave device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire slave device, the interrupt detector supplies the power from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device when detecting a timer interrupt occurring at predetermined intervals, and the controller performs control to perform an initialization process of the wireless communicator when the power is supplied from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device, and perform an entire initialization process of the slave device when a capture signal is received via the wireless communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirai, Toshiyuki Sugitani, Shinji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9813983
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a master device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the slave device, a power supply that supplies power to each unit of the master device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire master device, the interrupt detector supplies power from the power supply to each unit when detecting the interrupt, and the controller performs control to continuously transmit a capture signal to the slave device that waits for reception at a reception timing of a first predetermined interval, via the wireless communicator for time longer than the first predetermined interval when the detected interrupt is an interrupt that requests signal transmission to the slave device, and control to await a capture signal transmitted from the slave device through the wireless communicator when the detected interrupt is a timer interrupt occurring at a second predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirai, Shinji Fukuda, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9503983
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, and the master device includes a master device wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the slave device, a master device power supply that supplies power to each unit of the master device, a master device interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a master device controller that controls the entire master device, the master device interrupt detector supplies power from the master device power supply to each unit of the master device when detecting the interrupt, and the master device controller performs control to continuously transmit a capture signal to the slave device that waits for reception at a reception timing of a predetermined interval, via the master device wireless communicator for time longer than the predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirai, Etsuko Satoh, Shinji Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160088552
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, the slave device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the master device, a power supply unit that supplies power to each unit of the slave device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire slave device, the interrupt detector supplies the power from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device when detecting a timer interrupt occurring at predetermined intervals, and the controller performs control to perform an initialization process of the wireless communicator when the power is supplied from the power supply unit to each unit of the slave device, and perform an entire initialization process of the slave device when a capture signal is received via the wireless communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HIRAI, Toshiyuki SUGITANI, Shinji FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20160088553
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a master device includes a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the slave device, a power supply that supplies power to each unit of the master device, an interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a controller that controls the entire master device, the interrupt detector supplies power from the power supply to each unit when detecting the interrupt, and the controller performs control to continuously transmit a capture signal to the slave device that waits for reception at a reception timing of a first predetermined interval, via the wireless communicator for time longer than the first predetermined interval when the detected interrupt is an interrupt that requests signal transmission to the slave device, and control to await a capture signal transmitted from the slave device through the wireless communicator when the detected interrupt is a timer interrupt occurring at a second predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HIRAI, Shinji FUKUDA, Takashi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160088561
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is a wireless communication system including a slave device, and a master device wirelessly connected to the slave device, and the master device includes a master device wireless communicator that performs wireless communication with the slave device, a master device power supply that supplies power to each unit of the master device, a master device interrupt detector that detects various interrupts, and a master device controller that controls the entire master device, the master device interrupt detector supplies power from the master device power supply to each unit of the master device when detecting the interrupt, and the master device controller performs control to continuously transmit a capture signal to the slave device that waits for reception at a reception timing of a predetermined interval, via the master device wireless communicator for time longer than the predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HIRAI, Etsuko SATOH, Shinji FUKUDA