Patents by Inventor Kei Shimotani

Kei Shimotani 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: 11941829
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a space by one imaging device fixed in the space, specify, in the image, a two-dimensional coordinate of a bright spot indicating light emission of a light emitting device moving in the space, acquire output information output by the light emitting device, and specify a three-dimensional coordinate in the space of the light emitting device based on the output information and the two-dimensional coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shuhei Kobayakawa, Kiyofumi Aikawa, Daisuke Matsumoto, Kei Shimotani
  • Patent number: 11877098
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of images obtained by periodically capturing one or more lighting devices that repeat blinking according to a determined pattern, a first image and a second image in which a lighted lighting device is captured and in response to a distance from a position of the device indicated by the first image to a position of the device indicated by the second image being within a range corresponding to a period from a time of capturing the first image to a time of capturing the second image, regard the lighting device indicated by the first image and the lighting device indicated by the second image are the same, and specify the pattern of the lighting device that has been regarded the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Aikawa, Kei Shimotani, Daisuke Matsumoto, Shuhei Kobayakawa
  • Publication number: 20230060658
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polymer film, in which in a case where a laminate is manufactured by sticking a metal foil to the polymer film, the adhesiveness between the polymer film and the metal foil is excellent, and the performance of suppressing a misregistration of a wiring line formed on the metal foil is excellent even in a case of further laminating a sticking material on the wiring line; and a laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akira YAMADA, Kei SHIMOTANI
  • Publication number: 20220404526
    Abstract: Provided are (1) a transfer film which is used for manufacturing a base material for a display panel, the transfer film including a temporary support and a transfer layer including a photosensitive layer, in which a softening temperature of the photosensitive layer after exposure is 300° C. or higher; (2) a transfer film which is used for manufacturing a base material for a display panel, the transfer film including a temporary support and a transfer layer including a photosensitive layer, in which a transmittance of the photosensitive layer at a photosensitive wavelength is 30% or more; and (3) applications thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Onitsuka, Yasuhiro Kawatani, Kei Shimotani
  • Publication number: 20210150864
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of images obtained by periodically capturing one or more lighting devices that repeat blinking according to a determined pattern, a first image and a second image in which a lighted lighting device is captured and in response to a distance from a position of the device indicated by the first image to a position of the device indicated by the second image being within a range corresponding to a period from a time of capturing the first image to a time of capturing the second image, regard the lighting device indicated by the first image and the lighting device indicated by the second image are the same, and specify the pattern of the lighting device that has been regarded the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi AIKAWA, Kei SHIMOTANI, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Shuhei KOBAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210097708
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a space by one imaging device fixed in the space, specify, in the image, a two-dimensional coordinate of a bright spot indicating light emission of a light emitting device moving in the space, acquire output information output by the light emitting device, and specify a three-dimensional coordinate in the space of the light emitting device based on the output information and the two-dimensional coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei KOBAYAKAWA, Kiyofumi AIKAWA, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Kei SHIMOTANI
  • Patent number: 9704504
    Abstract: The voice analysis device includes: a voice information acquiring unit that acquires a voice signal generated by plural voice acquiring units disposed at different distances from a speaking section of a speaker and acquiring voice of the speaker; and an identification unit that identifies the speaker corresponding to the voice having been acquired, on the basis of intensities of respective peaks in a frequency spectrum of a first enhanced waveform and a frequency spectrum of a second enhanced waveform. The first enhanced waveform is a waveform where a voice signal of a predetermined target speaker has been enhanced, and the second enhanced waveform is a waveform where a voice signal of a speaker other than the target speaker has been enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Inagi, Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Akira Fujii, Kiyoshi Iida
  • Publication number: 20160260439
    Abstract: The voice analysis device includes: a voice information acquiring unit that acquires a voice signal generated by plural voice acquiring units disposed at different distances from a speaking section of a speaker and acquiring voice of the speaker; and an identification unit that identifies the speaker corresponding to the voice having been acquired, on the basis of intensities of respective peaks in a frequency spectrum of a first enhanced waveform and a frequency spectrum of a second enhanced waveform. The first enhanced waveform is a waveform where a voice signal of a predetermined target speaker has been enhanced, and the second enhanced waveform is a waveform where a voice signal of a speaker other than the target speaker has been enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya INAGI, Haruo HARADA, Hirohito YONEYAMA, Kei SHIMOTANI, Akira FUJII, Kiyoshi IIDA
  • Patent number: 9368118
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes a voice information acquiring unit that acquires information about voices acquired by a first voice acquiring unit which acquires the voice and is worn by a first wearer and a second voice acquiring unit which acquires the voice and is worn by a second wearer from each of the wearers, and a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between the first wearer and the second wearer on the basis of (a) speaker identification information, which is information for determining whether the voice acquired by the first voice acquiring unit and the voice which is the same as that acquired by the first voice acquiring unit and is acquired by the second voice acquiring unit are spoken by the wearers or other persons, and (b) a phase difference between sound waves with plural frequencies included in the voices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruo Harada, Yohei Nishino, Kiyoshi Iida, Kei Shimotani, Hirohito Yoneyama, Akira Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150332674
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes a first voice acquisition unit provided in a place where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of a user is a first distance, plural second voice acquisition units provided in places where distances of sound wave propagation paths from the mouth of the user are smaller than the first distance, and an identification unit that identifies whether the voices acquired by the first and second voice acquisition units are voices of the user or voices of others excluding the user on the basis of a result of comparison between first sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and second sound pressure calculated from sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by each of the plural second voice acquisition units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yohei NISHINO, Haruo HARADA, Kei SHIMOTANI, Hirohito YONEYAMA, Kiyoshi IIDA, Akira FUJII
  • Patent number: 9177556
    Abstract: A sound analysis apparatus includes a sound information obtaining section chat obtains information relating to a sound acquired by a sound acquiring section that acquires the sound and distinguishes a spoken voice of a wearer from a spoken voice of another person, a phase difference deriving section that derives a relationship between a frequency and a phase difference with respect to the sound acquired by the plural sound acquiring sections, a dispersion deriving section that derives a dispersion that is the level of irregularity of the derived phase difference, and a distance deriving section that derives a distance between the wearer and the other person using a first dispersion derived in a case where the sound is distinguished as the spoken voice of the other person and a second dispersion derived in a case where the sound is distinguished as the spoken voice of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Nishino, Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Akira Fujii, Kiyoshi Iida
  • Patent number: 9153244
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body and is used to hang the apparatus body from a neck of a user, a first voice acquisition unit provided in the strap or the apparatus body, a second voice acquisition unit provided at a position where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of the user is smaller than a distance of a sound wave propagation path from the mouth of the user to the first voice acquisition unit, and an identification unit that identifies a sound, in which first sound pressure acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is larger by a predetermined value or more than second sound pressure acquired by the second voice acquisition unit, on the basis of a result of comparison between the first sound pressure and the second sound pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Shimotani, Yohei Nishino, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kiyoshi Iida, Akira Fujii, Haruo Harada
  • Patent number: 9140774
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes a plate-shaped body, a plurality of first voice acquisition units that are placed on both surfaces of the plate-shaped body and that acquire a voice of a speaker, a sound pressure comparison unit that compares sound pressure of a voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit placed on one surface of the plate-shaped body with sound pressure of a voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit placed on the other surface and determines a larger sound pressure, and a voice signal selection unit that selects information regarding a voice signal which is associated with the larger sound pressure and is determined by the sound pressure comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Iida, Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Akira Fujii, Yohei Nishino
  • Patent number: 9129611
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes a first voice acquisition unit provided in a place where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of a user is a first distance, plural second voice acquisition units provided in places where distances of sound wave propagation paths from the mouth of the user are smaller than the first distance, and an identification unit that identifies whether the voices acquired by the first and second voice acquisition units are voices of the user or voices of others excluding the user on the basis of a result of comparison between first sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and second sound pressure calculated from sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by each of the plural second voice acquisition units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Nishino, Haruo Harada, Kei Shimotani, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kiyoshi Iida, Akira Fujii
  • Patent number: 9014395
    Abstract: An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A main body includes a discrimination unit and a transmission unit. A strap is used for hanging the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is provided to the strap or the main body. A second audio acquisition device is provided to the strap at a position where a distance between the second audio acquisition device and the user's mouth is smaller than the distance between the first audio acquisition device and the user's in a state where the strap is worn around the user's neck. The discrimination unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or of another person by comparing audio signals of the sound acquired by the first and second audio acquisition devices. The transmission unit transmits information including the discrimination result to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Yohei Nishino, Kiyoshi Iida, Takao Naito
  • Patent number: 8983843
    Abstract: A motion analyzer may include a motion detection unit, a speaking detection unit, and a determination unit. The motion detection unit may detect motion of a part of a body of a subject. The speaking detection unit may detect speaking of the subject. The determination unit may determine that the subject has performed predetermined motion when motion of a part of the body is detected by the motion detection unit and speaking of the subject is detected by the speaking detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Kiyoshi Iida, Yohei Nishino, Akira Fujii, Haruo Harada
  • Patent number: 8892424
    Abstract: An audio analysis system includes a terminal apparatus and a host system. The terminal apparatus acquires an audio signal of a sound containing utterances of a user and another person, discriminates between portions of the audio signal corresponding to the utterances of the user and the other person, detects an utterance feature based on the portion corresponding to the utterance of the user or the other person, and transmits utterance information including the discrimination and detection results to the host system. The host system detects a part corresponding to a conversation from the received utterance information, detects portions of the part of the utterance information corresponding to the user and the other person, compares a combination of plural utterance features corresponding to the portions of the part of the utterance information of the user and the other person with relation information to estimate an emotion, and outputs estimation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Yohei Nishino, Kiyoshi Iida, Takao Naito
  • Patent number: 8855331
    Abstract: An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A strap has an end portion connected to a main body and is used to hang the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is at the end portion or in the main body. Second and third audio acquisition devices are at positions separate from the end portion by substantially the same predetermined distances, on the respective sides of the strap extending from the user's neck. An analysis unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or another person by comparing audio signals of acquired by the first and second or third audio acquisition devices and detects an orientation of the user's face by comparing the audio signals acquired by the second and third audio acquisition devices. A transmission unit transmits the analysis result to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Iida, Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Yohei Nishino
  • Patent number: 8790505
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing silver triangular pyramid particles including: forming an electric field in an electrolytic solution including silver ions and a surfactant to reduce the silver ions into silver triangular pyramid particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Shimotani, Jun Kawahara, Satoshi Tatsuura, Yasuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8731213
    Abstract: A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body to make the apparatus body hung from a neck of a wearer, a first voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice of a speaker and is disposed in either a left or right strap when viewed from the wearer, a second voice acquisition unit that acquires the voice of the speaker and is disposed in the opposite strap in which the first voice acquisition unit is disposed, and an arrangement recognition unit that recognizes arrangements of the first and second voice acquisition units, when viewed from the wearer, by comparing a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit with sound pressure of a heart sound of the wearer acquired by the second voice acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Harada, Hirohito Yoneyama, Kei Shimotani, Akira Fujii, Yohei Nishino, Kiyoshi Iida