Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Watanabe

Kazuhiro 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).

  • Patent number: 11185235
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains measurement data for calculating biological information of a measurement subject from a sensor that performs measurement without contact. Based on content of the measurement data, the measurement data is classified into a group associated with at least a position of the measurement subject, the biological information is calculated from the classified measurement data, and the calculated biological information is compared with a reference value associated with a group to which the measurement data belongs. Then, a notification is made based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tomohiko Kitamura, Yasuo Kohashi, Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11184543
    Abstract: There is provided an exposure setting apparatus. A display control unit performs control so that a coordinate system region which expresses a coordinate system including a first axis corresponding to an aperture value and a second axis corresponding to a shutter speed is displayed in a display unit. The display control unit performs control to add, to the coordinate system region, a visual gradation in which a tone value changes in the coordinate system region in a direction from a side where the aperture value is low and the shutter speed is slow to a side where the aperture value is high and the shutter speed is fast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Mayu Asano, Takeshi Kikkawa, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 11176798
    Abstract: Anomaly notification system that notifies of an anomaly of cared person in room includes sensor, sound collecting unit, first determination unit that determines whether a volume of the collected sound is more than or equal to a reference volume, second determination unit that determines whether a target sound is a predetermined activity sound generated by an activity of cared person, and third determination unit that determines whether an anomaly occurs in cared person, based on the activity amounts, which are measured before and after the target sound is collected, and notification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Toshiaki Tanaka, Masaru Yamaoka, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210352218
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a recording control unit configured to perform control to start recording content including at least one of a moving image and sound in response to an operation of a first operating member or a second operating member; and a control unit configured to perform control to: record the content as content of a new group that differs from a group of content recorded immediately prior thereto in a case where recording of the content is started in response to receipt of an operation of the first operating member; and record the content as content of the same group as the content recorded immediately prior thereto in a case where recording of the content is started in response to receipt of an operation of the second operating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Harry Vermeulen, Takeshi Kikkawa, Soushi Takita, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20210343172
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which enable more appropriate character string notation change control to be performed with respect to a user. An information processing device (1) includes a control unit (100), the control unit being configured to perform: control to display a character string using a predetermined notation mode corresponding to the school grade of a user; and control to change to a notation mode in which related information is co-displayed together with a character selected by the user and a character belonging to the same proficiency level group as the selected character, out of the character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO WATANABE, YOSHIHIKO IKENAGA, MARIKA NOZUE
  • Publication number: 20210295727
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2) including a control unit (200) configured to: perform control for sequentially displaying question data in a conversational format; control display in the conversational format so as to proceed in accordance with a transition trigger operation by a learner; record a part where an advice request operation has been performed by the learner with respect to the display in the conversational format being sequentially displayed; and calculate comprehension of the learner based on a part where the advice request operation has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO WATANABE, YOSHIHIKO IKENAGA, MARIKA NOZUE
  • Patent number: 11115238
    Abstract: Provided is a gateway device capable of reducing power consumption in a sleep state and relaying an activation signal between networks without delay. When receiving an activation signal, the gateway device according to the present invention transfers the activation signal to another network via a relay switch, and outputs a signal indicating the reception of the activation signal from a transceiver, thereby turning on a microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masashi Saito
  • Patent number: 11070734
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of taking and editing a content with satisfactory operability while holding a grip. The image pickup apparatus includes a display unit, a grip, an operation unit including a touch operation member extending in a slide direction for a slide operation that designates one of taken contents, a first instruction member to take, and a second instruction member to retake, and a controller that changes a display content on the display unit according to a slide operation to the touch operation member. The operation unit is provided between the grip and the display unit in a perpendicular direction to the slide direction. The first and second instruction members are provided between the touch operation member and the grip in the perpendicular direction. The first and second instruction members are respectively provided near one end and the other end of the touch operation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Harry Vermeulen, Kenichi Nishimura, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 11064128
    Abstract: There is provided an exposure setting apparatus. A display control unit performs control to display a coordinate system region, a first indicator, and a second indicator on a display unit. The coordinate system region represents a coordinate system that includes a first axis corresponding to a first exposure control parameter and a second axis corresponding to a second exposure control parameter. The first indicator indicates positions, in the coordinate system region, of a plurality of combinations of a value of the first exposure control parameter and a value of the second exposure control parameter that correspond to a predetermined exposure. The second indicator indicates a position, in the coordinate system region, of a combination of the setting value of the first exposure control parameter and the setting value of the second exposure control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Mayu Asano, Takeshi Kikkawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20210144195
    Abstract: [Problem] It is possible to confirm whether a registration destination of data is a peer-to-peer type database or a storage unit other than the peer-to-peer type database more appropriately. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a requesting unit configured to request information regarding whether a registration destination of data is a P2P database or a storage unit other than the P2P database, to a plurality of targets which is different from each other, and an output control unit configured to control output of information obtained as a result of the request to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Masaaki ISOZU
  • Patent number: 10983686
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Patent number: 10967382
    Abstract: A vertical roller mill includes a housing, a chute that supplies materials to be grinded to a center portion of the housing, a grinder that is provided below the chute and grinds the materials to be grinded, an exhaust pipe that is provided above the grinder, a transport mechanism that forms an air flow for transporting, to the exhaust pipe, grinded materials grinded by the grinder, and a flow-constricting flow path provided between the grinder and the exhaust pipe and narrows a flow path area for the air flow, in which the flow-constricting flow path is formed between a first flow-constricting ring provided in the center portion of the housing and a second flow-constricting ring provided to protrude from the housing toward the center portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Nariai, Emi Ohno, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takahiro Kozaki, Akira Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210089673
    Abstract: [Problem] It becomes possible to control access to a P2P database more appropriately. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including an access control unit configured to control new access to a P2P database by arbitrary entity on a basis of history information regarding access to the P2P database by the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: KOKI TAKAHASHI, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, MASAAKI ISOZU
  • Publication number: 20210073227
    Abstract: To be able to deal with more request information without increasing the load on a peer-to-peer database system. An information processing apparatus is provided including an acquisition unit that acquires data provided from a P2P database on the basis of request information, and a storage control unit that controls storage of the data performed by a cache storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: KOKI TAKAHASHI, MASAAKI ISOZU, KAZUHIRO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210064782
    Abstract: To enable a user himself/herself who is the owner of management data of a P2P database to disclose data while maintaining authenticity of the data. An information processing apparatus is provided including a creation unit that creates public data by using management data of a P2P database, and a registration control unit that controls registration of the public data to the P2P database, on the basis of first identification information that uniquely identifies the management data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: KOKI TAKAHASHI, MASAAKI ISOZU, KAZUHIRO WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10929094
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device located in a predetermined space includes: obtaining sleep information of a person present in a first space from a biological sensor disposed in the first space, the sleep information indicating a sleep state of the person and the first space includes a first device; determining, by a processor, a first illuminance level to be set for the first device based on the obtained sleep information and a first database indicating a correspondence between the sleep state and a target illuminance level of a corresponding device, the target illuminance level of the corresponding device being a predetermined illuminance level which does not awake a sleeping person at the sleep state and provides visibility for an awake person; and transmitting, to the first device, a first command for setting the first illuminance level in the first device as an illuminance upper-limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tomohiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20210044758
    Abstract: There is provided an exposure setting apparatus. A display control unit performs control so that a coordinate system region which expresses a coordinate system including a first axis corresponding to an aperture value and a second axis corresponding to a shutter speed is displayed in a display unit. The display control unit performs control to add, to the coordinate system region, a visual gradation in which a tone value changes in the coordinate system region in a direction from a side where the aperture value is low and the shutter speed is slow to a side where the aperture value is high and the shutter speed is fast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Mayu Asano, Takeshi Kikkawa, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20210044735
    Abstract: There is provided an exposure setting apparatus. A display control unit performs control to display a coordinate system region, a first indicator, and a second indicator on a display unit. The coordinate system region represents a coordinate system that includes a first axis corresponding to a first exposure control parameter and a second axis corresponding to a second exposure control parameter. The first indicator indicates positions, in the coordinate system region, of a plurality of combinations of a value of the first exposure control parameter and a value of the second exposure control parameter that correspond to a predetermined exposure. The second indicator indicates a position, in the coordinate system region, of a combination of the setting value of the first exposure control parameter and the setting value of the second exposure control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Mayu Asano, Takeshi Kikkawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20210034604
    Abstract: [Problem] It is possible to calculate reliability of a P2P database more appropriately. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reliability calculating unit configured to calculate reliability of a P2P database on a basis of information regarding the P2P database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Masaaki ISOZU
  • Patent number: 10847047
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is an information processing device that can dynamically determine point allocation of a question and provide a user with enjoyment of receiving a test. [Solution] Provided is the information processing device including a control unit configured to determine point allocation of each question in a test on a basis of answer results of the test made by a plurality of users during a test time, calculate a score of a predetermined user on a basis of the point allocation in response to a request of the predetermined user, and generate information for disclosing the score of the predetermined user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu