Patents by Inventor Kazuo Nomura

Kazuo Nomura 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: 20230012555
    Abstract: A sound output control device includes: an orientation detecting unit configured to detect a state of orientation of a face of a user; an ambient sound obtaining unit configured to obtain ambient sound; an ambient sound reducing processing unit configured to perform, based on the ambient sound, processing of reducing the ambient sound; and a sound output control unit configured to cause sound to be output with the ambient sound reduced by the ambient sound reducing processing unit, when the detected orientation of the face of the user is in a first state, and make audibility of the ambient sound higher than in a state where the ambient sound has been reduced by the ambient sound reducing processing unit, when the detected orientation of the face of the user is in a second state changed from the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuru Kobayashi, Toshikazu Fujii, Kazuo Nomura, Tatsuhiro Sukegawa, Shinji Kamimura, Jeong-ju Choe
  • Patent number: 11458833
    Abstract: A tractor including: an engine mounted on a traveling body; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a tail pipe long in an up-down direction and configured to emit exhaust gas having passed through the post-processing device to the outside. The post-processing device is arranged in a standing posture in front of an operation unit on the traveling body so that the exhaust gas flows from the bottom to the top. An upwardly protruding outlet pipe is provided on an upper surface side of the post-processing device. The inner diameter of an exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe is set larger than the outer diameter of the outlet pipe which is inserted and communicated with the exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Publication number: 20210237557
    Abstract: A tractor including: an engine mounted on a traveling body; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a tail pipe long in an up-down direction and configured to emit exhaust gas having passed through the post-processing device to the outside. The post-processing device is arranged in a standing posture in front of an operation unit on the traveling body so that the exhaust gas flows from the bottom to the top. An upwardly protruding outlet pipe is provided on an upper surface side of the post-processing device. The inner diameter of an exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe is set larger than the outer diameter of the outlet pipe which is inserted and communicated with the exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuo NOMURA
  • Patent number: 10994603
    Abstract: A tractor including: an engine mounted on a traveling body; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a tail pipe long in an up-down direction and configured to emit exhaust gas having passed through the post-processing device to the outside. The post-processing device is arranged in a standing posture in front of an operation unit on the traveling body so that the exhaust gas flows from the bottom to the top. An upwardly protruding outlet pipe is provided on an upper surface side of the post-processing device. The inner diameter of an exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe is set larger than the outer diameter of the outlet pipe which is inserted and communicated with the exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 10565895
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes a swing width analysis unit that specifies a swing width from a first position to a second position on a swing trajectory on the basis of coordinates of a swing position of an exercise appliance which are acquired by using an output signal from an inertial sensor in a calculation processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
  • Publication number: 20200047606
    Abstract: A tractor including: an engine mounted on a traveling body; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a tail pipe long in an up-down direction and configured to emit exhaust gas having passed through the post-processing device to the outside. The post-processing device is arranged in a standing posture in front of an operation unit on the traveling body so that the exhaust gas flows from the bottom to the top. An upwardly protruding outlet pipe is provided on an upper surface side of the post-processing device. The inner diameter of an exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe is set larger than the outer diameter of the outlet pipe which is inserted and communicated with the exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Kazuo NOMURA
  • Patent number: 10459002
    Abstract: A motion analysis method includes calculating a change in an amount of inertia of a region attached with an inertial sensor during a swing using an output of the inertial sensor, and identifying a maximum value of the amount of inertia during the swing to compare the maximum value and the amount of inertia at an impact with each other. A deceleration timing during the swing of the region (the grip of the sporting equipment) attached with the inertial sensor is identified, and the quality of the swing can be evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira, Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 10252137
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes an impact analysis unit that specifies a hitting direction of an exercise appliance during impact and a speed of the exercise appliance during the impact by using an output signal from an inertial sensor, and a display unit that displays the hitting direction and the speed in a coordinate system in which a hitting target direction is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9880187
    Abstract: A motion analysis method includes: specifying plural operations included in a motion operation using an output from an inertial sensor; calculating an operating time of each of the plural operations; adjusting a time axis of each operating time; and outputting operation information of the operation based on the adjusted time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Masafumi Sato, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira
  • Patent number: 9854441
    Abstract: An acquiring unit acquires the positional information. A first request unit requests an authentication station to perform authentication by using the positional information acquired by the acquiring unit. When the authentication station grants authentication for a request from the first request unit, a communication processing unit carries out communications using a first radio communication system. When authentication required for carrying out the communications using the first radio communication system is not performed in the communication processing unit, a second request unit requests another terminal apparatus to perform authentication by using a second radio communication system, whose transmission distance is shorter than the first radio communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170354844
    Abstract: An apparatus which accurately analyzes a motion state of an exercise appliance and performs a notification of the accurately analyzed motion state. A sensor unit includes a sensor section that is attached to a golf club and detects a swing motion of the golf club, and an imaging portion that captures an image of a part of interest corresponding to the golf club.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo NOMURA
  • Patent number: 9731165
    Abstract: A swing analyzing apparatus includes at least an angular velocity sensor, an impact detection section, an angular velocity information calculation section, and an impact state judgment section. The impact detection section detects the timing of impact in a swing of a sporting good. The angular velocity information calculation section calculates at least one of the amount of change in angular velocity with respect to a predetermined axis in a predetermined period after the impact timing and the greatest value of the angular velocity based on data outputted form the angular velocity sensor. The impact state judgment section judges the state of impact based on the result calculated by the angular velocity information calculation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nomura, Yasushi Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 9643069
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes a sensor section adapted to detect a motion, and an announcement section adapted to announce a state of an output signal of the sensor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9625288
    Abstract: A motion analysis system includes first to N-th (N is an integer of 2 or more) sensor units which is attached to an object, an analysis unit which obtains a plurality of items of sampling data output from the sensor units, to analyze a motion of the object, a synchronization signal sending unit which transmits a first synchronization signal group including N first synchronization signals in order from the first to the N-th sensor unit, and transmits a second synchronization signal group including N second synchronization signals in order from the N-th to the first sensor unit, with respect to sensor unit, and a reference synchronization signal generation unit which generates a reference synchronization signal which is to be a reference with respect to the first to N-th sensor units, based on the first and second synchronization signal groups received by sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9599635
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes: a threshold value determining section that determines whether the amount of inertia in a first period is within a threshold value range; a bias value setting section that sets, if it is determined that the amount of inertia is within the threshold value range, a bias value included in the amount of inertia on the basis of a first average value that is an average value of the amount of inertia detected in the first period; and an analysis information calculating section that analyzes a motion of a measurement object using correction data from which the bias value is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9559701
    Abstract: A power feeding apparatus includes a power feeding stop section that stops, all together, the supply of electric power to a plurality of sensors connected to the power feeding apparatus. Each of the sensors outputs a signal including timing information indicating the timing at which the supply of electric power is stopped by the power feeding stop section. A synchronization section synchronizes the output signals of the plurality of sensors based on the timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 9536319
    Abstract: A motion analysis device has a determination unit which uses an output from an inertial sensor mounted on at least one of a subject and a tool operated by the subject, to determine a dominant hand of the subject in a swing. The determination unit can determine the dominant hand on the basis of the sign of angular velocity or acceleration from the inertial sensor. A calculation unit which calculates motion analysis information in a swing, using an output from the inertial sensor can add dominant hand information from the determination unit to the motion analysis information. The motion analysis device can include a coincidence determination unit which determines that a first subject and a second subject have different dominant hands, and an inverted image generation unit which inverts first motion analysis information in the case of no coincidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20160236061
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes an impact analysis unit that specifies an inclined angle with respect to a vertical plane of a hitting surface of an exercise appliance during impact by using an output signal from an inertial sensor, and a difference analysis unit that specifies a difference between a reference inclined angle acquired prior to the impact and the inclined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20160236060
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes an impact analysis unit that specifies a hitting direction of an exercise appliance during impact and a speed of the exercise appliance during the impact by using an output signal from an inertial sensor, and a display unit that displays the hitting direction and the speed in a coordinate system in which a hitting target direction is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20160236059
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes a swing width analysis unit that specifies a swing width from a first position to a second position on a swing trajectory on the basis of coordinates of a swing position of an exercise appliance which are acquired by using an output signal from an inertial sensor in a calculation processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA