Patents by Inventor Ken Nakamura
Ken Nakamura 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: 20240296648Abstract: An object detecting device includes: an overall processing unit configured to perform object detection processing on an input image; an allocation processing unit configured to determine a segmented image for each frame which is subject to object detection among the plurality of segmented images in advance in a cycle of N frames, and reserve the determined segmented image; a selection processing unit configured to select and output, for each frame, some of the segmented images that are subject to object detection among the plurality of segmented images based on a reservation result from the allocation processing unit; a division processing unit configured to perform object detection processing on each of the segmented images output from the selection processing unit; and a synthesizing processing unit configured to synthesize an object detection result from the overall processing unit and an object detection result from the division processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki Uzawa, Ken Nakamura, Saki Hatta, Shuhei Yoshida, Daisuke Kobayashi, Yuya Omori, Koyo Nitta
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Patent number: 12080583Abstract: A base plate has one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface. An electrostatic chuck is capable of being mounted on the one surface. The base plate includes a refrigerant flow path provided therein. An inner wall of the refrigerant flow path has an upper surface convex toward the one surface in a longitudinal sectional view in a direction intersecting with a direction in which refrigerant flows. An unevenness is formed on the upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Sato, Keiichi Takemoto, Tatsuya Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240292077Abstract: A vehicular camera with an attachment jig includes a vehicular camera, and an attachment jig for attaching the vehicular camera to a vehicle body. The attachment jig is provided with a first screw hole through which a screw is able to pass, and the vehicular camera is provided with a second screw hole into which the screw is able to be screwed. The screw is configured to pass through the first screw hole and to be screwed into the second screw hole, and a thermosetting resin is present in a region between the first screw hole and the screw so as to be in contact with both the first screw hole and the screw.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Ryou FUKASAWA
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Publication number: 20240289593Abstract: A first aspect of the present disclosure is a convolutional neural network inference processing device that performs processing in a convolutional neural network including a plurality of convolution layers and a residual layer that adds intermediate data related to the plurality of convolution layers as an addition target to a processing result by the plurality of convolution layers for each tile that is data obtained by dividing input data into a predetermined size, the convolutional neural network inference processing device including an inconsistency data storage unit that stores inconsistency data that is data at a portion where there is inconsistency between the processing result and the intermediate data, a past layer data storage unit that stores past layer data that is an addition target in a residual layer generated using inconsistency data related to the tile for which processing has been performed in a past and the intermediate data, and a processing unit that performs processing by the plurality oType: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Ken NAKAMURA, Saki HATTA, Yuya OMORI
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Publication number: 20240283332Abstract: This failure symptom detection device includes: a diagnosis calculation circuitry which calculates index values for abnormality-presence/absence determination for electric motor-provided equipment, from a detection result of current flowing from a driving device to an electric motor; and a diagnosis determination circuitry which determines presence/absence of abnormality of the electric motor-provided equipment from a calculation result of the diagnosis calculation circuitry. The diagnosis calculation circuitry includes a starting current extraction circuitry which, from detected current, extracts current in an acceleration period until a constant rotational speed is reached after starting of the electric motor, a data generation circuitry which divides current data in the acceleration period extracted by the starting current extraction circuitry, into pieces of data, and a frequency analysis circuitry which performs frequency analysis on each piece of data divided by the data generation circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ken HIRAKIDA, Hiroshi INOUE, Makoto KANEMARU, Yoshiki MATSUI, Takaharu NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240273874Abstract: When an output feature map to be an output of convolution processing is output, the output feature map is output to a storage unit for each of divided small regions. When each small region is output to the storage unit, in a case where a feature included in the small region is the same as a predetermined feature or a feature of a small region output in the past, the predetermined feature or the feature of a small region output in the past is compressed and output to the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Yuya OMORI, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Koyo NITTA
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Publication number: 20240272540Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a circuit board accommodated in a housing and a metal shield. The circuit board includes a first component disposed on a second surface and having a first height and a second component disposed on the second surface and having a second height smaller than the first height. The first component is disposed in a position opposite to a second bottom surface portion of a recessed portion of a first bottom surface portion of the shield, and the second component is disposed in a position opposite to a portion other than the recessed portion of the first bottom surface portion of the shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo USAMI, Kazuhiro ABE, Masayuki YOSHIE
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Publication number: 20240276083Abstract: A vehicular camera according to one embodiment includes a lens unit, a board, a housing, a ring member, a conductive first shield part, and a conductive second shield part. The lens unit includes a lens barrel in which a lens is arranged. The board is disposed with a sensor that converts light received through the lens into an image signal. The housing accommodates the board. The ring member includes a first opening into which the lens barrel is fitted, and connects the lens unit and the housing. The first shield part is provided to accommodate the board in the housing. The second shield part is arranged between the ring member and the board, includes a second opening having a diameter corresponding to that of the lens barrel, and is electrically connected to the first shield part. The board and the second shield part are electrically connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Kazufumi TAKESHITA, Takeshi HARADA, Yoshiki USUI
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Publication number: 20240246488Abstract: A vehicular camera includes: an imaging sensor including a first pixel region having X1 pixels arranged in a first direction and Y1 pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; an optical system including at least one lens and having an optical axis intersecting the first pixel region; and a memory configured to store a position of a second pixel region inside the first pixel region and having X2 pixels arranged in the first direction and Y2 pixels arranged in the second direction, the X2 being smaller than the X1, the Y2 being smaller than the Y1. The vehicular camera is configured to: read the position of the second pixel region from the memory in response to start-up of the imaging sensor; and output an output image corresponding to the second pixel region while outputting the position of the second pixel region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Yuichiro AIHARA, Koyo USAMI, Masayoshi MICHIGUCHI
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Patent number: 12042176Abstract: The present invention provide a puncture instrument capable of administering (supplying) a drug solution. The puncture instrument includes a puncture tip section (2); a first tubular body (3) connected to the puncture tip section (2) at the distal end; and an outer tubular body (5) at least partially covering the first tubular body (3). The first tubular body (3) is formed to be rotatable around an axis along the longitudinal direction. The first tubular body (3) has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the outer tubular body (5). A drug solution supply path (5a) is provided on the outside of the first tubular body (3).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: TRANSELL Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Nakamura, Ken Masamune, Kohei Miki, Katsuyuki Sado, Hirokazu Takagawa, Fumiya Iwashima, Akihiro Nabeshima
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Patent number: 12047627Abstract: A coded data generation method of generating coded data of a plurality of bit rates in which an image is encoded includes the steps of: acquiring an evaluated value at distribution destinations of the generated coded data when the coded data is reproduced; and changing the bit rate of the coded data to be generated based on a distribution of the acquired evaluated value in all channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Ken Nakamura, Kazuhisa Yamagishi, Taichi Kawano
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Patent number: 12041232Abstract: A coding method encodes an image by dividing the image into blocks, and comprises: dividing a coding target image into a plurality of coding unit blocks; determining whether or not to encode by dividing the coding unit block into a plurality of sub-coding unit blocks, on a basis of an edge direction and an edge strength of an edge obtained for each pixel in the coding unit block; and encoding, in a case of determining to divide the coding unit block into a plurality of sub-coding unit blocks in the determining step, a first sub-coding unit block by referencing a second sub-coding unit block inside the same coding unit block as the first sub-coding unit block.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Omori, Ken Nakamura, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hiroe Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20240232593Abstract: In a data processing device, a fixed-point position control unit determines, as first control. The fixed-point position control unit causes a detection calculation unit to perform calculation processing on processing target data at a processing point in time. The saturation rate control unit instructs, as second control to be repeated by the fixed-point position control unit, the fixed-point position control unit to move at least the fixed-point position as control to increase a lower limit saturation rate proportional to a magnitude of a counted lower limit counter value with respect to a result of the first control. The fixed-point position control unit performs, as the second control, a predetermined determination on the basis of the instruction from the saturation rate control unit and the metadata, determines the fixed-point position moved for each layer, and causes calculation processing to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yuya OMORI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA
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Publication number: 20240187718Abstract: An in-vehicle camera includes a lens barrel including at least one lens and being tubular, an imaging element disposed on the circuit board and on an optical axis of the at least one lens, a ring member made of a first resin having a first light transmittance, and disposed to protrude in a direction away from the optical axis over an entire periphery of the lens barrel, and a housing portion a part of which has a tubular shape, and one end surface of the tubular shape is made of a second resin having a second light transmittance smaller than the first light transmittance. The in-vehicle camera further includes a third resin disposed on an inner side of the tubular shape between the ring member and the imaging element in a direction of the optical axis, and having a third light transmittance smaller than the first light transmittance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro ABE, Masayuki YOSHIE
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Publication number: 20240171834Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a first shield made of metal and disposed to surround a circuit board. The first shield includes a first bottom surface portion, a second bottom surface portion disposed to be separated from the first bottom surface portion, and a connection portion connecting an entire periphery of the first bottom surface portion and an entire periphery of the second bottom surface portion. At least a first side surface portion, a second side surface portion, a third side surface portion, and a fourth side surface portion of the first shield are formed by a contiguously curved surface, and at least the first side surface portion, the second side surface portion, the third side surface portion, the fourth side surface portion, the first bottom surface portion, the connection portion, and the second bottom surface portion are formed by a contiguously curved surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Yoshiki USUI, Takeshi HARADA, Masayuki YOSHIE, Kouichi KAWAMOTO, Ken NAKAMURA, Tadafumi KUROGI, Kazufumi TAKESHITA, Kenichi KUWAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240135155Abstract: In a data processing device, a fixed-point position control unit determines, as first control. The fixed-point position control unit causes a detection calculation unit to perform calculation processing on processing target data at a processing point in time. The saturation rate control unit instructs, as second control to be repeated by the fixed-point position control unit, the fixed-point position control unit to move at least the fixed-point position as control to increase a lower limit saturation rate proportional to a magnitude of a counted lower limit counter value with respect to a result of the first control. The fixed-point position control unit performs, as the second control, a predetermined determination on the basis of the instruction from the saturation rate control unit and the metadata, determines the fixed-point position moved for each layer, and causes calculation processing to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yuya OMORI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA
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Publication number: 20240119605Abstract: A calculation unit (22) sets each frame, of a moving image including a plurality of frames, as a target frame, calculates a motion vector with reference to a reference frame over an entirety of the target frames, and calculates an index indicating a magnitude of change between a key frame and the target frame, which is represented by using the motion vector, a judgement unit (25) judges whether or not the calculated index is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, a first detection unit (27) detects a region indicating an object from the target frame by using an object detection model in a case in which the index is equal to greater than the threshold value, a second detection unit (28) detects a region on the target frame, which is obtained by correcting a position of a region detected in the reference frame by using the motion vector in a case in which the index is less than the threshold value, and an output unit (30) outputs information of the region detected by the first detection unitType: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ken NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Saki HATTA, Yuya OMORI, Shuhei YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20240114130Abstract: A video coding method is a video coding method for coding an image in units of blocks obtained by dividing an image, and in the method a computer performs processing for dividing the image into blocks, acquiring an intra-image prediction mode predicted for each block, and generating, by using a combination pattern based on the intra-image prediction mode of a plurality of blocks adjacent to at least any one block, determining whether or not the plurality of blocks are to be combined, and performing prediction for each combined block when it is determined that the plurality of blocks are to be combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA, Yuya OMORI
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Publication number: 20240072282Abstract: The present disclosure stabilizes power generation of a fuel cell stack in an environment in which an oxygen concentration in a fuel cell system readily decreases. In a case where it is detected that the oxygen concentration is lower than a predetermined concentration or where a phenomenon caused by the oxygen concentration being lower than the predetermined concentration is detected, processing to increase a flow rate of air supplied to the fuel cell stack or processing to ventilate the interior of the fuel cell stack by controlling an operation of a ventilation unit is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Naoya TOMIMOTO, Yosuke KAKIMI, Ken NAKAMURA, Katsuyuki TACHIKAWA, Wataru AKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240062506Abstract: An object detection device 10 includes an entire processing unit 110 that obtains first metadata for the entire input image by scaling the input image and performing object detection processing, a divided image narrowing unit 120 that narrows down the input image into a predetermined number of selected divided images from a group of divided images obtained by dividing the input image, a division processing unit 130 that obtains second metadata by performing object detection processing for each of the selected divided images, and a synthesis processing unit 140 that removes the second metadata obtained by the division processing unit 130 that overlaps the first metadata obtained by the entire processing unit 110, and synthesizes the first metadata not removed and the first meta data obtained by the entire processing unit 110 to output the meta data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki UZAWA, Saki HATTA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Yuya OMORI, Ken NAKAMURA, Koyo NITTA