Patents by Inventor Kazunori Yamamoto

Kazunori Yamamoto 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: 11961989
    Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando, Takashi Yanagiura, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230350543
    Abstract: An information processing system distributes a video and includes processing circuitry configured to accept selection of a first object from a first information processing terminal; transmit, in accordance with the selection, a predetermined notification to a second information processing terminal associated with the first object; receive a response to the predetermined notification from the second information processing terminal; determine a state of a first screen displayed on the first information processing terminal; and decide, based on the determined state of the first screen, a second screen to be displayed on the second information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Soichiro TAKAKUWA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11740766
    Abstract: An information processing system distributes a video and includes processing circuitry configured to accept selection of a first object from a first information processing terminal; transmit, in accordance with the selection, a predetermined notification to a second information processing terminal associated with the first object; receive a response to the predetermined notification from the second information processing terminal; determine a state of a first screen displayed on the first information processing terminal; and decide, based on the determined state of the first screen, a second screen to be displayed on the second information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Soichiro Takakuwa, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230268332
    Abstract: Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a power module package. The power module package may include a power module including a first lead frame, a second lead frame, and at least one chip at least partially between the first lead frame and the second lead frame. The power module package may also include a first heat spreader attached to the first lead frame. The power module package may further include a second heat spreader also attached to the first lead frame such that the first lead frame, the first heat spreader and the second heat spreader form an enclosure defining a cavity containing the at least one chip. The enclosure may include an inlet configured to allow a cooling medium to flow into the cavity and an outlet configured to allow the cooling medium to flow out of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Gongyue TANG, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Xiaowu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11703856
    Abstract: [Object] [Solving Means] A moving body according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an imaging unit, a first detection unit, and a control unit. The first detection unit detects a front direction of the moving body. The control unit controls a posture around a first axis of the imaging unit to a posture specified by a steering apparatus based on an output of the first detection unit, an output of a second detection unit that detects a front direction of the steering apparatus that steers the imaging unit, and input data generated by the steering apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230128796
    Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus and a control method for enabling a cooking robot to perform cooking efficiently. The control apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology acquires multiple recipe programs each prepared for a dish to be finished by a cooking robot going through multiple cooking processes, thereby creating a cooking process plan on the basis of a resource required for each of the cooking processes. The control apparatus further causes the cooking robot to parallelly execute those of the cooking processes that are parallelly executable for cooking different dishes, on the basis of the cooking process plan. The present technology can be applied to a computer that controls the cooking robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotoko YAMAGUCHI, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Mari IKENAGA
  • Publication number: 20230092168
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing terminal, and an information processing method capable of efficiently developing a recipe program to be used by a cooking robot. The processing device according to an aspect of the present technology provides a recipe program generated by combining, according to a dish, program modules prepared for each of cooking steps or for each unit of operations included in each of the cooking steps. The present technology is applicable to a server which discloses a recipe program to be used for controlling a cooking robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari IKENAGA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Kotoko YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230072586
    Abstract: A behavioral ability obtainment unit 351 obtains behavioral abilities including, for example, at least one of physical behavioral abilities and intellectual behavioral abilities, of a plurality of members, i.e., members of a group to be guided. A guidance control unit 352 performs guidance control for the group on the basis of the behavioral abilities obtained by the behavioral ability obtainment unit 351. For example, the guidance control unit determines a member to be prioritized from the group members, generates a route plan to a destination according to the behavioral abilities of the determined member to be prioritized, and performs guidance control based on the route plan. This makes it possible to perform guidance operations according to the group to be guided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, KUNIAKI TORII, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, KAZUMI SATO
  • Publication number: 20230065048
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device, a stream user terminal and viewing user terminal. The information processing device comprises processing circuitry configured to stream a video, including a character object of a stream user, to the viewing user terminal by transmitting information on the video to the viewing user terminal; aggregate resulting information including information on an action by a viewing user to the video during streaming of the video; determine a specific motion to be applied to the character object based on the resulting information; and transmit specific information on the specific motion to the stream user terminal. After the streaming of the video is ended, a resulting screen is displayed on the stream user terminal, the resulting screen including a character image with the specific motion applied to the character object, and the character image is generated based on the specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Soichiro TAKAKUWA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Tomoki MORITA
  • Patent number: 11515237
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink bonded to a first package interconnection component and a second package interconnection component. The first package interconnection component and the second package interconnection component may provide lateral and vertical interconnections in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Gongyue Tang, Kazunori Yamamoto, Xiaowu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220282987
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a mobile body that creates an advance map corresponding to a travel environment based on a distance measurement result by a distance measurement sensor to perform self-position estimation based on the advance map and an information processing device that arranges nodes in the advance map. The information processing device includes a receiving unit that receives a self-position estimation result of a mobile body in an advance map and a node arrangement unit that arranges nodes in the advance map based on the self-position estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: MIKIO NAKAI, RYO WATANABE, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, MARI IKENAGA
  • Patent number: 11402197
    Abstract: A structure for measuring a distance on the basis of the principle of triangulation is simplified. A distance measuring module includes a diffractive optical element, an imaging element, and a distance measuring unit. The diffractive optical element emits a predetermined number of line light beams. The imaging element images the line light beams with which the subject is irradiated. The measuring unit measures a distance from the subject by using triangulation on the basis of the imaged line light beams. Thus, by imaging the line light beams emitted via the diffractive optical element, the distance from the subject is measured with a simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Mabuchi, Takeo Arai, Nobuhiro Kihara, Kazunori Yamamoto, Go Asayama
  • Publication number: 20220197278
    Abstract: [Object] [Solving Means] A moving body according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an imaging unit, a first detection unit, and a control unit. The first detection unit detects a front direction of the moving body. The control unit controls a posture around a first axis of the imaging unit to a posture specified by a steering apparatus based on an output of the first detection unit, an output of a second detection unit that detects a front direction of the steering apparatus that steers the imaging unit, and input data generated by the steering apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220140424
    Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Shinji MATSUNAGA, Takashi ARAI, Akiji ANDO, Takashi YANAGIURA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220095786
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a moving body and a control method capable of improving affinity of the moving body for a person and a space. A moving body according to one aspect of the present technology includes a top plate that serves as a desk at which a person performs work, a support arm that supports the top plate and that can extend and contract, and a moving unit that holds the support arm and performs movement for causing the work to be performed. Furthermore, the moving body controls a posture state including a state of the support arm and a movement state of the moving unit in accordance with a relationship with an environment state as a state of a surrounding environment and a person state as a state of the person located around, sensed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to a movable robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: KOHEI KOJIMA, MIKIO NAKAI, KUNIAKI TORII, TAICHI YUKI, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, TAKAMORI YAMAGUCHI, CHAO WANG, MASATAKA TOYOURA, YOSHIHITO OHKI
  • Patent number: 11199163
    Abstract: An electron generation means for generating electrons includes a rectifier circuit and a booster circuit. AC power from a power supply is passed through the rectifier circuit in advance and then flown to the booster circuit. The rectifier circuit, according to the plus/minus inversion cycle of the said AC power, blocks current flowing toward a second terminal in a state where a first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a positive potential, and current flows from the second terminal only in the state where the first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a negative potential, and thus current flows only in one direction of the alternating current. The booster circuit boosts the voltage on a primary side, and electrons are generated from one terminal on a secondary side of the booster circuit only in a state where the first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a negative potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA Global Tec Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamamoto, Tokuzou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11144603
    Abstract: A fusion condition providing system for an optical fiber fusion splicer includes: a storage device storing a database of fusion conditions; a user-side communication unit transmitting a command for requesting a fusion condition for a pair of optical fibers to be fusion spliced by a user's fusion splicer; and a data management unit. The data management unit, in accordance with the command received from the user-side communication unit via a network, transmits the requested fusion condition among the plurality of fusion conditions inside the storage device to the user-side communication unit via the network so that the requested fusion condition is available for use in the fusion splicer. If the requested fusion condition was not in the database, the data management unit updates the database by causing the requested fusion condition to be newly created and storing the newly created fusion condition in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Tanabe, Kazunori Yamamoto, Hirofumi Oshima
  • Publication number: 20210296217
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink bonded to a first package interconnection component and a second package interconnection component. The first package interconnection component and the second package interconnection component may provide lateral and vertical interconnections in the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Gongyue TANG, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Xiaowu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210222651
    Abstract: An electron generation means for generating electrons includes a rectifier circuit and a booster circuit. AC power from a power supply is passed through the rectifier circuit in advance and then flown to the booster circuit. The rectifier circuit, according to the plus/minus inversion cycle of the said AC power, blocks current flowing toward a second terminal in a state where a first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a positive potential, and current flows from the second terminal only in the state where the first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a negative potential, and thus current flows only in one direction of the alternating current. The booster circuit boosts the voltage on a primary side, and electrons are generated from one terminal on a secondary side of the booster circuit only in a state where the first terminal of the rectifier circuit has a negative potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA Global Tec Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Tokuzou YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210216589
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit acquires multimodal information including sound information and non-sound information of a user and determines a topic to be presented to the user on the basis of the multimodal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: MARI IKENAGA, KUNIAKI TORII, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, TAICHI YUKI