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).
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Publication number: 20230012555Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Tatsuru Kobayashi, Toshikazu Fujii, Kazuo Nomura, Tatsuhiro Sukegawa, Shinji Kamimura, Jeong-ju Choe
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Patent number: 11458833Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Publication number: 20210237557Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventor: Kazuo NOMURA
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Patent number: 10994603Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 10565895Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
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Publication number: 20200047606Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., LtdInventor: Kazuo NOMURA
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Patent number: 10459002Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira, Masafumi Sato
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Patent number: 10252137Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9880187Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Masafumi Sato, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira
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Patent number: 9854441Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION SYSTEM, MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ANALYSIS METHOD
Publication number: 20170354844Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo NOMURA -
Patent number: 9731165Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuo Nomura, Yasushi Nakaoka
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Patent number: 9643069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9625288Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9599635Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9559701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9536319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20160236059Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA
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Publication number: 20160236061Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA
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Publication number: 20160236060Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi SATO, Toshihiko KANO, Kenya KODAIRA, Kazuo NOMURA