Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Hara

Kenichiro Hara 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: 11816686
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating sellability and cancellability scores for selling objects on an electronic marketplace. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a mobile device, an image including an object for sale and determining information associated with the object for sale. Information associated with pre-identified objects is determined from information associated with pre-identified objects, where each of the pre-identified objects corresponds to the object for sale. A sellability score and/or a cancellability score is generated based at least in part on the information associated with the object for sale and the information associated with the pre-identified objects. The sellability score and the cancellability score are further provided to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MERCARI, INC.
    Inventors: John Alexander Lagerling, Kai Chun Cheung, Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Jeffrey Kenichiro Hara
  • Patent number: 11702095
    Abstract: A travel controller detects, from an image representing the face of a driver of a vehicle, an act of the driver checking surroundings of the vehicle, records a time at which the act of checking is detected, and suggests to the driver a lane change for the vehicle to change a travel lane to an adjoining lane. In the case that the act of checking is detected in a precheck period before a suggestion time at which the lane change is suggested, the travel controller makes the vehicle execute the lane change regardless of whether the act of checking is detected in a post-suggestion check period after the suggestion time of the lane change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaro Tsugawa, Kenichiro Hara, Hiromi Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20220297714
    Abstract: A travel controller detects, from an image representing the face of a driver of a vehicle, an act of the driver checking surroundings of the vehicle, records a time at which the act of checking is detected, and suggests to the driver a lane change for the vehicle to change a travel lane to an adjoining lane. In the case that the act of checking is detected in a precheck period before a suggestion time at which the lane change is suggested, the travel controller makes the vehicle execute the lane change regardless of whether the act of checking is detected in a post-suggestion check period after the suggestion time of the lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaro TSUGAWA, Kenichiro HARA, Hiromi NEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220172065
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, computer-readable storage medium, and method embodiments of automatic ontology generation by embedding representations. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive a vectorized feature set derived from an embedding and including first and second features, and provide the vectorized feature set to a fuser set including first and second fusers. The system may be configured to generate a representation from the fuser set based on the first and second features, and derive tasks based on the representation, assigning to the tasks respective qualifier sets including a weight value, a loss function, and a feedforward function. The system may be configured to compute respective weighted losses for the tasks, based on the respective qualifier sets, and output a data model based on backpropagating the respective weighted losses through the fuser set, the vectorized feature set, the embedding, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Sho ARORA, Jeffrey Kenichiro HARA, Sahil RISHI, Yu ISHIKAWA, Shotaro KOHAMA, Lu SUN, Vishal KASHYAP, Mohammad-Mahdi MOAZZAMI
  • Publication number: 20210357955
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for improving search engine results of listings of For Sale Objects (FSOs). A search engine may be improved by implementing rules that resolve ambiguity between listings for different (FSOs) that match the same search inputs. An unsupervised machine learning module may evaluate candidate rules and identify improvements that may not be obvious to a human evaluator. An ecommerce site that combines the improved search engine with the unsupervised machine learning module may dynamically evaluate search results using different candidate rules and iteratively improve search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Sahil RISHI, Manikandan SANKAR, Byong Mok OH, Yodhavee CHUENBUNLUESOOK, Shuichi IIDA, Jeffrey Kenichiro HARA, Stephen JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20210016804
    Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance apparatus (a control unit (100)) for a vehicle capable of hands-off driving that lets a driver take his or her hands off the steering wheel. The driving assistance apparatus includes a processor (10) configured to determine, on the basis of sensor information indicating a state of the driver, whether or not the driver is in a state unsuitable for the surrounding monitoring of the vehicle during the hands-off driving, warn the driver through a notification device when it is determined that the driver is in a state unsuitable for the surrounding monitoring, and notify the driver, through the notification device, of a request for holding the steering wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro HARA, Naruhisa YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro TOMOSUE, Shunichiro SAWAI, Naoki NISHIMURA, Takanori KUSAKABE, Tomoyuki YOSHIDA, Shogo KONISHI, Hirofumi MORI
  • Publication number: 20200231941
    Abstract: A gene-modified coxsackievirus that is to be used in oncolytic virotherapy and is improved in safety and/or aggressiveness is provided. A gene-modified coxsackievirus that contains a mutated genome with a coxsackievirus B3 wild-type (CVB3-WT) genome inserted with at least one polynucleotide constituted of a target sequence for at least one of either of miR-34a and miR-34c and is suppressed in proliferation in normal cells is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yang JIA, Shohei MIYAMOTO, Kenichiro HARA, Atsuhumi IWANAGA, Kenzaburo TANI
  • Publication number: 20200104866
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating sellability and cancellability scores for selling objects on an electronic marketplace. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a mobile device, an image including an object for sale and determining information associated with the object for sale. Information associated with pre-identified objects is determined from information associated with pre-identified objects, where each of the pre-identified objects corresponds to the object for sale. A sellability score and/or a cancellability score is generated based at least in part on the information associated with the object for sale and the information associated with the pre-identified objects. The sellability score and the cancellability score are further provided to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Mercari, Inc.
    Inventors: John Alexander LAGERLING, Kai Chun Cheung, Byong Mok Oh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Jeffrey Kenichiro Hara
  • Patent number: 10450638
    Abstract: The present invention achieves an object of continuously supplying a melt from a melt nozzle over a long period of time by adjusting the contents of Mn and S in an Fe—B—Si—C-type amorphous alloy ribbon. An amorphous alloy ribbon of the present invention includes a composition containing Fe, Si, B, C, Mn, S, and inevitable impurities, the composition containing, with respect to 100.0 atm % of the total amount of Fe, Si, B, and C, 3.0 atm % or more and 10.0 atm % or less of Si, 10.0 atm % or more and 15.0 atm % or less of B, and 0.2 atm % or more and 0.4 atm % or less of C, the amorphous alloy ribbon having a content ratio of Mn of more than 0.12 mass % and less than 0.15 mass %, and a content ratio of S of 0.0036 mass % or more and less than 0.0045 mass %, the amorphous alloy ribbon having a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, and a width of 100 mm or more and 300 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Morifumi Kuroki, Kenichiro Hara, Hajime Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20180334737
    Abstract: The present invention achieves an object of continuously supplying a melt from a melt nozzle over a long period of time by adjusting the contents of Mn and S in an Fe—B—Si—C-type amorphous alloy ribbon. An amorphous alloy ribbon of the present invention includes a composition containing Fe, Si, B, C, Mn, S, and inevitable impurities, the composition containing, with respect to 100.0 atm % of the total amount of Fe, Si, B, and C, 3.0 atm % or more and 10.0 atm % or less of Si, 10.0 atm % or more and 15.0 atm % or less of B, and 0.2 atm % or more and 0.4 atm % or less of C, the amorphous alloy ribbon having a content ratio of Mn of more than 0.12 mass % and less than 0.15 mass %, and a content ratio of S of 0.0036 mass % or more and less than 0.0045 mass %, the amorphous alloy ribbon having a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, and a width of 100 mm or more and 300 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Morifumi KUROKI, Kenichiro HARA, Hajime ITAGAKI
  • Patent number: 6673991
    Abstract: A keyboard lid opening and closing mechanism for a keyboard musical instrument having a simple structure and not requiring a large space for installation thereof. To house a keyboard lid in the folded state inside the keyboard musical instrument, the mechanism is provided with a reverse V-shape forming portion disposed at the place where the undersurface of the keyboard lid passes while moving, a rotation support portion including first connecting groove walls, and a keyboard lid stop portion including second connecting groove walls. Therefore, the structure of the mechanism for opening and closing the keyboard lid is simplified, and a large space for installation of the mechanism is not necessary since these portions include no movable parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventor: Kenichiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20030221537
    Abstract: A keyboard lid opening and closing mechanism for a keyboard musical instrument having a simple structure and not requiring a large space for installation thereof. To house a keyboard lid in the folded state inside the keyboard musical instrument, the mechanism is provided with a reverse V-shape forming portion disposed at the place where the undersurface of the keyboard lid passes while moving, a rotation support portion including first connecting groove walls, and a keyboard lid stop portion including second connecting groove walls. Therefore, the structure of the mechanism for opening and closing the keyboard lid is simplified, and a large space for installation of the mechanism is not necessary since these portions include no movable parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventor: Kenichiro Hara
  • Patent number: 4625617
    Abstract: A support apparatus for sound members in a musical instrument of the type where a musical sound of predetermined frequency is generated by each sound member in response to the impact of a corresponding striking member. The striking members are activated by corresponding keys such as in toy piano. The sound members are attached to a pair of elongated elastic seat members by an adhesive agent. The seat members support the sound members and are in turn supported by a pair of supporting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kenichiro Hara, Shizuo Nakamura