Patents by Inventor Kenji Akiyoshi

Kenji Akiyoshi 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: 20220188378
    Abstract: This computation processing device includes: a first computational unit that executes simultaneously-executable convolution computation on data corresponding to no more than a first maximum number of channels of the convolution computation; and a data dividing unit that divides the data which is subject to the convolution computation into data which has no more than the first maximum number of channels when the number of pieces of data which is subject to the convolution computation exceeds the first maximum number of channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji AKIYOSHI
  • Patent number: 9753545
    Abstract: An input device is a device determining an input by a user based on a motion of a hand of the user in picked-up images associated with an operation screen displaying a selectable area. The input device includes an input determiner (155) determining whether or not the input by the user is a select operation of a selectable area or is a gesture operation based on, in the picked-up images, a change in shape of the hand of the user caused by the moving hand. The determined input is transmitted to an application subjected to an operation through a transmitter (156).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Solutions Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 9544556
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A projection control apparatus may include a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to process the instructions to: cause a projection apparatus to project an image; detect a user operation; control the projection apparatus to change projection parameters upon detecting a first user operation; and control the one or more processors to change the image without changing the projection parameters upon detecting a second user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Hiroi, Nobuaki Takanashi, Yoshiaki Sato, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takafumi Kurokawa, Kenji Akiyoshi, Ryohtaroh Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20150302549
    Abstract: An information processing system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The information processing system may include a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to detect an actual object, determine at least one of an orientation and a position of a first image within a projection surface, based on at least one of an orientation and a position of the actual object, and project the first image onto the projection surface in at least one of the determined position and determined orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi HIROI, Yoshiaki SATO, Nobuaki TAKANASHI, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Takafumi KUROKAWA, Ryohtaroh TANIMURA, Kenji AKIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20150304615
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A projection control apparatus may include a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to process the instructions to: cause a projection apparatus to project an image; detect a user operation; control the projection apparatus to change projection parameters upon detecting a first user operation; and control the one or more processors to change the image without changing the projection parameters upon detecting a second user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi HIROI, Nobuaki TAKANASHI, Yoshiaki SATO, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Takafumi KUROKAWA, Kenji AKIYOSHI, Ryohtaroh TANIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150302784
    Abstract: An information processing system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The information processing system may include a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to process the instructions to detect an actual object, project a first image, detect a user's operation on the actual object, and execute a task regarding the first image on the basis of the user's operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi HIROI, Nobuaki TAKANASHI, Yoshiaki SATO, Hiroyuki WATANABE, Takafumi KUROKAWA, Kenji AKIYOSHI, Ryohtaroh TANIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150234469
    Abstract: An input device is a device determining an input by a user based on a motion of a hand of the user in picked-up images associated with an operation screen displaying a selectable area. The input device includes an input determiner (155) determining whether or not the input by the user is a select operation of a selectable area or is a gesture operation based on, in the picked-up images, a change in shape of the hand of the user caused by the moving hand. The determined input is transmitted to an application subjected to an operation through a transmitter (156).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8736635
    Abstract: The edge segment setting unit (6) sets up edge data for an array of pixel divisions from the coordinates of start and end points of an edge line. The correction unit (7) shifts the array of pixel divisions on the bases of row of pixel divisions arranged in the scanning line direction by a given number of pixels in the scanning line direction. The contraction unit (8) calculates the sums of edge data of pixel divisions within the pre-shift range of the array of pixel divisions on the basis of row of pixel divisions and stores the sums in a column of contracted pixels having a width equal to one pixel division in the scanning line direction. The adjacent pixel adding unit (9) adds the values of the pixel divisions protruding from the pre-shift range of the array of pixel divisions to the column of contracted pixels of the pixel adjacent in the protruding direction. The first mask generation unit (11) generates mask data indicating the fill according to the array of contracted pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: NEC System Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8237628
    Abstract: A vector image drawer comprises: an outline definer, a divider, an outline flag setter, a filler, and a continue flag setter. The outline definer defines outline data for indicating a start pixel and an end pixel of a filling along each scanning line of a drawing region. The divider divides the drawing region into an m×n matrix of drawing subregions. The outline flag setter sets an outline flag for indicating a presence of the outline data for each of the drawing subregions. The filler performs a fill processing for drawing subregions in a case where a continue flag is set for an adjacent drawing subregions and the outline flag is set for each of the drawing subregions. A continue flag setter sets the continue flag for each of the scanning line, whether a filling continues into an adjacent drawing subregion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: NEC System Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20110205241
    Abstract: The edge segment setting unit (6) sets up edge data for an array of pixel divisions from the coordinates of start and end points of an edge line. The correction unit (7) shifts the array of pixel divisions on the bases of row of pixel divisions arranged in the scanning line direction by a given number of pixels in the scanning line direction. The contraction unit (8) calculates the sums of edge data of pixel divisions within the pre-shift range of the array of pixel divisions on the basis of row of pixel divisions and stores the sums in a column of contracted pixels having a width equal to one pixel division in the scanning line direction. The adjacent pixel adding unit (9) adds the values of the pixel divisions protruding from the pre-shift range of the array of pixel divisions to the column of contracted pixels of the pixel adjacent in the protruding direction. The first mask generation unit (11) generates mask data indicating the fill according to the array of contracted pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NEC SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090066699
    Abstract: A vector image drawer comprises: an outline definer, a divider, an outline flag setter, a filler, and a continue flag setter. The outline definer defines outline data for indicating a start pixel and an end pixel of a filling along each scanning line of a drawing region. The divider divides the drawing region into an m×n matrix of drawing subregions. The outline flag setter sets an outline flag for indicating a presence of the outline data for each of the drawing subregions. The filler performs a fill processing for drawing subregions in a case where a continue flag is set fur an adjacent drawing subregions and the outline flag is set for each of the drawing subregions. A continue flag setter sets the continue flag for each of the scanning line, whether a filling continues into an adjacent drawing subregion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 6646379
    Abstract: A metal vapor discharge lamp having a highly reliable sealed portion. The lamp has an arc tube including a discharge portion of translucent ceramic in which a discharge metal is filled and a pair of electrodes is disposed; small tubular portions coupled to both ends of the discharge portion; feeder bodies inserted into the small tubular portions; and a sealing material sealing the gap between the feeder body and the small tubular portion at the end portion opposite to the discharge portion. The end of the small tubular portions and the inner surface of the discharge portion define a discharge space. The feeder bodies are composed of a conductive cermet and connected to the electrodes. The ends of the feeder bodies extend at least to the ends of the small tubular portions. The temperature of the end of the sealing material on the discharge space side during the lamp operation is not more than 800° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nohara, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Shunsuke Kakisaka, Kazuo Takeda, Kenji Akiyoshi, Kouichi Sugimoto, Shiki Nakayama, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6563268
    Abstract: A high-intensity discharge lamp includes an arc tube having a pair of main electrodes, a starting circuit having a thermally-actuated switch for disconnecting the starting circuit, and an outer tube for containing the arc tube and the starting circuit, and the lamp is lighted by means of a reactance ballast. The thermally-actuated switch includes an envelope bulb that covers contacts of the thermally-actuated switch. Thereby, occurrence of sustained arc discharge in the outer tube is prevented in the case of a starting failure or a break-off of the arc tube at the end of the lamp's life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Yoshida, Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20020101165
    Abstract: A high-intensity discharge lamp includes an arc tube having a pair of main electrodes, a starting circuit having a thermally-actuated switch for disconnecting the starting circuit, and an outer tube for containing the arc tube and the starting circuit, and the lamp is lighted by means of a reactance ballast. The thermally-actuated switch includes an envelope bulb that covers contacts of the thermally-actuated switch. Thereby, occurrence of sustained arc discharge in the outer tube is prevented in the case of a starting failure or a break-off of the arc tube at the end of the lamp's life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Yoshida, Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 6107742
    Abstract: A metal halide lamp comprises a pair of electrodes and a discharge vessel filled with at least one metal halide comprising at least one rare earth metal halide, halogen in excess of the stoichiometry of the metal halide(s), mercury, and a rare gas. The amount of the mercury is between 7.7 mg/cc and 9.9 mg/cc, the excess halogen is 25-100% (in terms of atoms) of the halogen included in the metal halide(s), and the rated tube power for 200V rated tube voltage is 2000 W-3000 W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Seki, Kenji Akiyoshi, Akira Mii