Patents by Inventor Kazunori Matsumoto
Kazunori Matsumoto 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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Publication number: 20150096401Abstract: An industrial robot of the present disclosure includes a manipulator, a control device for controlling the manipulator, and a connection cable that connects the manipulator to the control device. The manipulator includes a fixed base section, a first motor, a first detecting section, a power supply section, a first casing, and a first power supply cable. The first motor operates the manipulator. The first detecting section detects the state of the first motor. The power supply section supplies electric power to the first detecting section. The first casing stores the first motor and the first detecting section. The first power supply cable connects the first detecting section to the power supply section. The power supply section is disposed in the base section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: TAKASHI NAGAI, KAZUNORI MATSUMOTO, WATARU TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 8930976Abstract: A method of selecting a factor for estimating characteristics of viewers who view a same content is disclosed. This method includes: storing a multi-layered hierarchal list of attribute words expressing viewer attributes, each of which is a candidate of the factor; extracting the attribute words from the same content; generating a first vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in the same content; for a successively-selected one of the attribute words, successively generating a second vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in ones of sets of learned-text information which contain the successively-selected attribute word; calculating a similarity score between the vectors on a per-attribute-word basis; and selecting one of the attribute words as the factor, which is associated with subordinate attribute words on a lower layer, based on a dispersion level of the similarity scores calculated for the subordinate attribute words.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Kazushi Ikeda, Gen Hattori, Kazunori Matsumoto, Chihiro Ono
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Patent number: 8912306Abstract: A halogen-terminated sulfur-containing polymer is represented by: X—(R—Sr)n—R—X wherein R is an ether bond-containing alkyl group having 3 to 26 carbon atoms, X is a halogen atom, n is an integer of 1 to 200, and r has an average of 1 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Toray Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukiko Hamada, Yasukazu Suga, Koki Echigoya, Kazunori Matsumoto, Tomohiro Oba
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Publication number: 20140336340Abstract: The curable composition is a curable composition including a liquid polysulfide polymer containing 8% by weight or more of thiol groups in one molecule, an epoxy resin, and an amine, in which the liquid polysulfide polymer is HS—(R—Sx)n—R—SH wherein R is a two valent or three valent organic group containing a —O—CH2—O— bond, the average of n is less than 10, x is an integer of 1 to 5, and the average of x is 1 to 2.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Yasukazu Suga, Yukiko Hamada, Kazunori Matsumoto, Rika Umano
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Publication number: 20140211390Abstract: An input/output device inputting and outputting information to an external device includes a control section for communicating with an external controller. Electric equipment for communicating with the input/output device includes an input/output assignment storing section for storing which port of an input circuit an input from the external device is assigned to, and which port of an output circuit an output is assigned to. The electric equipment also includes an electric-equipment-side input/output control section for operating a function of the electric equipment based on information from the control section, or transmitting, to the control section, the information indicating which port of the output circuit an output of the electric equipment is output to.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideki IHARA, Kazunori MATSUMOTO, Yoshiaki TANAKA, Kousuke TAKEMURA
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Publication number: 20140163150Abstract: A halogen-terminated sulfur-containing polymer is represented by: X—(R—Sr)n—R—X wherein R is an ether bond-containing alkyl group having 3 to 26 carbon atoms, X is a halogen atom, n is an integer of 1 to 200, and r has an average of 1 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: TORAY FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukiko Hamada, Yasukazu Suga, Koki Echigoya, Kazunori Matsumoto, Tomohiro Oba
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Patent number: 8723081Abstract: A superimposed voltage waveform with a predetermined cycle and amplitude is superimposed on a commanded voltage waveform for a second predetermined time after a first predetermined time elapses within an arcing period in which an arc is produced. The predetermined cycle of the superimposed voltage waveform is shorter than a short-circuit cycle and longer than a control cycle of a welding power supply unit. This suppresses a growth of a weld droplet by being pushed up toward a consumable electrode and suppresses an excessive growth of the droplet over an entire range from a low current range, characterized by frequent short-circuits, to a medium to high current range where short-circuits are less frequent. The droplet is also smoothly transferred to the weld pool in addition to preventing excessive droplet growth. This reduces the generation of spatter, giving a flatter bead appearance.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshinori Hongu, Kazunori Matsumoto, Kimiya Satou, Yoshiaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 8521660Abstract: The present invent ion provides a condensed SVM for high-speed learning using a large amount of training data. A first stage WS selector samples a plurality of training data from a training data DB, selects an optimal training vector xt among the plurality of training data, and outputs it to the WS manager. After the first stage finishes, a second stage WS selector extracts training data one by one from the training data DB and selects training data xt satisfying optimality and outputs it to the WS manager. An SVM optimizer extracts training data closest to the training data xt selected by the first and second stage WS selectors from the WS being managed by the WS manager, and condenses the two first and second training data to one training data when the distance between these is smaller than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Duc Dung Nguyen, Kazunori Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Takishima
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Patent number: 8465809Abstract: A moving bed reactor system is provided. The system comprises at least one gas inlet, a distributor, a temperature control, a plurality of electrodes, and a spark control circuit. The spark control circuit drives the electrodes and generates a multi-arc discharge when the system is loaded with particles and a gas at approximately atmospheric pressure or greater is being pumped through the system. The multi-arc discharge is useful to create activated species which may improve the rate of a chemical reaction taking place in the moving bed reactor system.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Angel Sanjurjo, Kazunori Matsumoto, Carles Colominas, Gopala Krishnan, Palitha Jayaweera, Kai-Hung Lau
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Patent number: 8346687Abstract: An SV reduction method for multi-class SVMs is provided with which a number of SVs contained in the multi-class SVMs can be reduced without becoming trapped in a local minimum optimization solution and the reduction of the SVs can be performed at high precision and high speed. The method includes a step of selecting, from a plurality of initially present support vectors, support vector pairs zi, zj (i, j=1, 2, . . . , NS); a step of preparing a single-variable objective function with a single global maximum and determining a maximum value k of the objective function; and a step of applying the maximum value k to the support vector pairs zi and zj to determine a temporary vector Ztemp[i] of small classification errors; and the support vector pairs zi, zj are represented by the temporary vector Ztemp[i].Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Duc Dung Nguyen, Kazunori Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Takishima
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Patent number: 8335354Abstract: The apparatus for registering face identification features can eliminate time and effort for manually retrieving and preparing face images by being provided with a face image retrieving portion 11 for retrieving a face image of a person via a network using the person's name as a keyword, a face feature extracting portion 12 for extracting features, which greatly influence identification of a person, from the face images retrieved by the face image retrieving portion 11, and a celebrity name, face image and feature database 13 for registering the face images retrieved by the face image retrieving portion 11 and the face features extracted by the face feature extracting portion 12 in a state where they are associated with the person's names.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Kenji Matsuo, Kazunori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8309886Abstract: Setter transmits information of an instruction that changes a content of a welding condition item to welder power supply, which then selects a content of the welding condition item from welding-condition-item memory & selector based on the information. At the same time, welder power supply selects data of the welding condition, which data corresponds to the content selected, and then transmits the selected content to setter, which displays the content on display section. The foregoing structure allows setter to set a content of a welding condition item for welder power supply without modifying or replacing setter presently used.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideki Ihara, Kazunori Matsumoto, Kouji Hamamoto, Yoshiaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 8279343Abstract: When generating animation content as summary content for a digital broadcast program, the timing for switching of animation images for display is controlled appropriately. Subtitle character string extraction means for extracting a subtitle character string from subtitle data contained in digital broadcast signals, still image extraction means for extracting one still image corresponding to the subtitle character string, and summary content generation means for generating summary content to display the extracted subtitle character strings together with the corresponding extracted still images, are provided; the summary content generation means decides the timing for switching display of the plurality of subtitle character strings and still images comprised by the summary content, based on the subtitle character strings.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Uemukai, Kazunori Matsumoto, Fumiaki Sugaya
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Publication number: 20120223063Abstract: In a method and device for performing welding, after the welding current reaches a first current value during a short circuit, the feeding of the welding wire is stopped, slowed down, or moved backward. As a result, the opening of a short circuit is urged to reduce the frequency at which welding is unnecessarily interrupted by an overcurrent protection function. This achieves high weld quality such as the absence of welding defects, and high production efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kazunori Matsumoto, Kimiya Sato, Akira Nakagawa, Hiroki Yuzawa, Hideki Ihara
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Patent number: 8208066Abstract: When generating animation content as summary content for a digital broadcast program, the timing for switching of animation images for display is controlled appropriately. Subtitle character string extraction means for extracting a subtitle character string from subtitle data contained in digital broadcast signals, still image extraction means for extracting one still image corresponding to the subtitle character string, and summary content generation means for generating summary content to display the extracted subtitle character strings together with the corresponding extracted still images, are provided; the summary content generation means decides the timing for switching display of the plurality of subtitle character strings and still images comprised by the summary content, based on the subtitle character strings.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: KDDI CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Uemukai, Kazunori Matsumoto, Fumiaki Sugaya
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Publication number: 20120072937Abstract: A method of selecting a factor for estimating characteristics of viewers who view a same content is disclosed. This method includes: storing a multi-layered hierarchal list of attribute words expressing viewer attributes, each of which is a candidate of the factor; extracting the attribute words from the same content; generating a first vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in the same content; for a successively-selected one of the attribute words, successively generating a second vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in ones of sets of learned-text information which contain the successively-selected attribute word; calculating a similarity score between the vectors on a per-attribute-word basis; and selecting one of the attribute words as the factor, which is associated with subordinate attribute words on a lower layer, based on a dispersion level of the similarity scores calculated for the subordinate attribute words.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi IKEDA, Gen HATTORI, Kazunori MATSUMOTO, Chihiro ONO
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Publication number: 20110025221Abstract: Device generating high-luminance and highly-efficient ultraviolet rays by applying polyphase alternating current discharge plasma in a multi-poled magnetic field to a light source for generating ultraviolet rays and using a usual molecular gas other than mercury and rare gases. The inside of a flat container 3 is evacuated, and 1 Torr or less of a molecular gas for use in discharge light emission fills therein or is flowed thereinto. Next, a phase-controlled twelve-output alternating current power supply of 1 kW or lower is connected to twelve divisional electrodes 1 for supply of discharge electric energy. Thus, plasma P occurs with stable alternating-current glow discharge along the surface of the divisional electrodes 1 covered with a barrier layer 2. As a result of discharge, light with a wavelength unique to the molecular gas that contains ultraviolet rays is emitted and extracted outside from a light extraction window 32.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: TOYAMA PREFECTUREInventors: Kazunori Matsumoto, Yuki Taira
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Publication number: 20100191683Abstract: The present invent ion provides a condensed SVM for high-speed learning using a large amount of training data. A first stage WS selector samples a plurality of training data from a training data DB, selects an optimal training vector xt among the plurality of training data, and outputs it to the WS manager. After the first stage finishes, a second stage WS selector extracts training data one by one from the training data DB and selects training data xt satisfying optimality and outputs it to the WS manager. An SVM optimizer extracts training data closest to the training data xt selected by the first and second stage WS selectors from the WS being managed by the WS manager, and condenses the two first and second training data to one training data when the distance between these is smaller than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Duc Dung Nguyen, Kazunori Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Takishima
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Publication number: 20100176105Abstract: A superimposed voltage waveform with a predetermined cycle and amplitude is superimposed on a commanded voltage waveform for a second predetermined time after a first predetermined time elapses within an arcing period in which an arc is produced. The predetermined cycle of the superimposed voltage waveform is shorter than a short-circuit cycle and longer than a control cycle of a welding power supply unit. This suppresses a growth of a weld droplet by being pushed up toward a consumable electrode and suppresses an excessive growth of the droplet over an entire range from a low current range, characterized by frequent short-circuits, to a medium to high current range where short-circuits are less frequent. The droplet is also smoothly transferred to the weld pool in addition to preventing excessive droplet growth. This reduces the generation of spatter, giving a flatter bead appearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshinori Hongu, Kazunori Matsumoto, Kimiya Satou, Yoshiaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7738998Abstract: Robot apparatus has a robot 1, a controller 2 for controlling the aforementioned robot 1 to perform working, and a plurality of external axis devices 4, 5 and 6 to be controlled by the aforementioned controller 2. The aforementioned external axis devices 4, 5 and 6 are provided with power switches 4b, 5b and 6b to be operated by an operator 9 so as to turn on/off power supplies thereto, and power supply circuits 4a, 5a and 6a to be operated from the aforementioned controller 2 so as to turn on/off the power supplies. Priority is given to operation using the aforementioned power switches 4b, 5b and 6b over operation from the aforementioned controller 2 as to turning off the power supplies to the external axis devices 4, 5 and 6.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Satoru Komatsu, Kazunori Matsumoto