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: 10832099
    Abstract: There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Akira Tange, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma
  • Publication number: 20200344422
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Harry Vermeulen, Kenichi Nishimura, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20200313928
    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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Masashi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200307256
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes at least a tank configured to hold a first printing material at a first position and a tank configured to hold a second printing material at a second position different from the first position. A light emitting control unit controls light emitting states of a plurality of light emitters. If an amount of the printing material in the first tank is smaller than a predetermined amount, and an amount of the printing material in the second tank is larger than a predetermined amount, the light emitting control unit transits a state of a first light emitter from a state when the amount of the printing material is larger than the predetermined amount to a state when the amount of the printing material is smaller than the predetermined amount, and maintains a state of a second light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Keita Takatani, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20200294295
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate at least a part of a plurality of frame areas in each of which an image provided on a screen is arrangeable; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a frame area that satisfies a predetermined condition from the designated frame area; a first determination unit configured to automatically determine an image to be arranged in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition; and a display control unit configured to arrange and display the determined image in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yuko Hokari, Akane Sakamoto, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20200296156
    Abstract: To more appropriately perform a consensus processing regarding update of a peer-to-peer database. There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquiring unit that acquires a value indicating an influence of a user; and a consensus processing unit that performs consensus processing regarding update of a P2P database on the basis of the value indicating the influence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Matthew Lawrenson, Christopher James Wright, Jan Jasper van den Berg
  • Patent number: 10771845
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that obtains information of a voice input of at least one user and estimates an attribute of the user based on the information of the voice input. The information processing apparatus further controls a display apparatus to display a layout image for the information of the voice input based on the estimated attribute of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kohei Asada, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Yuki Koga
  • Publication number: 20200279056
    Abstract: To enable a device not including a P2P database to confirm authenticity of arbitrary data on the basis of management data of the P2P database. Provided is an information processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding authenticity of arbitrary data, the information being generated on the basis of management data of a P2P database, and a provision unit configured to provide the information regarding authenticity of arbitrary data to a device not including the P2P database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu
  • Publication number: 20200225823
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Publication number: 20200213316
    Abstract: To implement access control of data registered in a P2P database. Provided is an information processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire arbitrary data associated with access right information desired by a user, and a registration control unit configured to control registration of the arbitrary data to a P2P database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: KOKI TAKAHASHI, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, MASAAKI ISOZU
  • Patent number: 10644667
    Abstract: A sound processing device includes an amplifier, a current detector, and a controller. The amplifier amplifies a sound signal to drive a loudspeaker. The current detector detects a value of an electric current flowing into the amplifier. The controller controls whether to supply power to the amplifier based on a predicted current value and the current detected by the current detector. The predicted current value is predicted in accordance with a volume setting and a level of the sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuhiro Uchida, Seigo Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10642472
    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: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Publication number: 20200130725
    Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus includes a shaft member, a moving portion, a support member, and a stop portion. The moving portion includes a first abutting surface that faces the stop portion in a circumferential direction of the shaft member. The first abutting surface is inclined with respect to an axial direction of the shaft member to face a shaft support portion side when the moving portion is viewed in a radial direction of the shaft member. The stop portion includes a first abutted surface that abuts the first abutting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji ISHIMURA, Masaaki HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Naohiro OOSONO
  • Publication number: 20200125062
    Abstract: A method for compensating teaching positions which includes: generating a compensation start point and a compensation end point in positions where each of a number of teaching positions is sandwiched between the compensation start point and the compensation end point in a direction crossing a welding path, the number of teaching positions being set along the welding path of a welding base material; detecting a profile of the welding base material along a detection path by performing touch sensing while a welding torch is being moved along the detection path from the generated compensation start point toward the generated compensation end point, a welding wire protruding from the welding torch; and compensating each of the teaching positions based on the detected profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko INOUE, Tomoyuki MOTOKADO, Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10605669
    Abstract: The infrared detector acquires measurement information which is obtained by measuring infrared radiant energy amount in a measuring range including a mobile terminal; acquires information indicating a reference temperature; detects infrared radiant energy distribution area indicating an area where the infrared radiant energy amount corresponding to the mobile terminal is measured out of the measuring range, based on measurement information; and calibrates a conversion table for converting infrared radiant energy amount to a temperature value based on infrared radiant energy amount in the detected infrared radiant energy distribution area and the reference temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Hiroko Sugimoto, Yoichi Ikeda, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10607625
    Abstract: There is provided a storage control device including: a filter detecting unit configured to detect a voice signal estimation filter for estimating a first voice signal heard by a specific user himself/herself; an estimation unit configured to estimate the first voice signal heard by the specific user himself/herself, on the basis of a voice signal including a second voice signal of the specific user collected by an air conduction sound collecting unit in accordance with the voice signal estimation filter detected by the filter detecting unit; and a storage control unit configured to cause a storage unit to store the first voice signal estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yasunori Kamada, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10602423
    Abstract: A display generating device includes a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner, and a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display generating device performs a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200075439
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a mounting board having a first surface on which a plurality of semiconductor chips is mounted. The first surface of the mounting board is provided with a frame that encloses peripheries of the plurality of semiconductor chips, and the frame is to be filled with filler. The mounting board has a second surface that is opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of connection terminals is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10574841
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that performs control to display, on a touch display, a first graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to a task and to display a second GUI different from the first GUI in a case where a touch-down operation on the first GUI has been performed, and to perform control, in a case where a continuing operation has started following the touch-down operation, to sequentially display a plurality of setting values different in type with respect to the task based on an amount of continuation of the continuing operation before the continuing operation is completed, and a task control unit that performs control to execute the task in a case where the continuing operation has completed and not to execute the task in a case where a touch-up operation has been performed before the continuing operation is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakata, Yumiko Saito, Tatsuya Hisatomi, Kouhei Kizu, Yu Taguchi, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200005618
    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: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji MASUDA, Toshiaki TANAKA, Masaru YAMAOKA, Kazuhiro WATANABE