Patents by Inventor Koichiro Nakamura

Koichiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20240144646
    Abstract: An apparatus calculates a positive pair similarity between a first feature vector of an image and a second feature vector associated with the same label as a label of the image, calculates a negative pair similarity between the first feature vector and a third feature vector associated with a label different from the label of the image, calculates a loss value with respect to the positive pair similarity lower than a threshold, calculates a loss value with respect to the negative pair similarity higher than the threshold, and learns a parameter of an feature extractor that decreases the loss values. For calculation one of the loss values, a loss function including a function such that an absolute value of a gradient is larger near a predetermined threshold and is non-zero but smaller even at a point away from the threshold is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki SORAKADO, Koichiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11960874
    Abstract: A control system comprises a mobile object control unit for controlling a mobile object; an update control unit for controlling reception of an update program of the mobile object control unit from a server and controlling update of the mobile object control unit by the program; an acquisition unit for acquiring reception information indicating a communication manner for receiving from the server for each program; and a communication control unit for controlling receiving the program from the server, based on the reception information, wherein the acquisition unit is for, when both a first update program and a second update program received after update by the first update program is executed have not been received, acquiring information about change of reception information of the first update program, and the communication control unit is for controlling receiving the first update program based on the information about change acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Taki, Koichiro Nakamura, Shoichi Kuraoka
  • Patent number: 11912870
    Abstract: A cured product of a resin composition according to the present invention includes at least silsesquioxane. When the average thermal expansion coefficient of the cured product at 30 to 200° C. is expressed as ?1 [K?1], at least one of requirements ?1/?2?10 and (?1??2)2×108?0.4 is satisfied, where a reference value ?2 is 350×10?6 [K?1] or less. In the cured product, an absorbance derived from a siloxane bond, an absorbance derived from a hydrocarbon group, and an absorbance derived from a hydroxy group are respectively expressed as Ia, Ib, and Ic, the absorbances being determined by attenuated total reflection using a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer. In this case, requirements 0.09?Ia/Ib?3.0 and 0.04?Ic/Ib?1.0 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakamura, Yuji Hiranuma
  • Publication number: 20240042508
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a two-piece can includes punching a metal plate into a disk shape, the metal plate including a Sn-plated layer of 100 mg/m2 or more and 1500 mg/m2 or less provided on a base material made of steel, a Cr-plated layer of 6 mg/m2 or more and 100 mg/m2 or less provided on the Sn-plated layer, and a coating layer laminated on the Cr-plated layer; and shaping by performing drawing and ironing on the metal plate having the disk shape into a can body having a bottomed cylindrical shape, wherein in the shaping, the drawing and ironing is performed so that ((Tb?Tw)/Tb)×100, which is a plate thickness reduction rate from the metal plate having the disk shape to the can body, is set as 35%?((Tb?Tw)/Tb)×100(%)?60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: DAIWA CAN COMPANY, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Fukunaga, Koichiro Nakamura, Shigeru Hirano, Yoshiaki Tani
  • Publication number: 20240010388
    Abstract: An aluminum-canned wine comprising: an aluminum can including an aluminum sheet, a resin film provided on a surface of the aluminum sheet which faces an internal space of the aluminum can, and an adhesive layer interposed between the aluminum sheet and the resin film and bonding the aluminum sheet and the resin film together, wherein the resin film includes a first resin layer as a topmost layer and a second resin layer containing a dimer acid-copolymerized polyester resin, and wherein at least one of the resin layers constituting the resin film, and/or the adhesive layer contains calcium carbonate; and a wine enclosed in the aluminum can and containing 4.3 mg/L or less of molecular SO2 and 350 mg/L or less of chloride ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Akira NAGASHIMA, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Sin OU
  • Publication number: 20240011963
    Abstract: A method for determining a reference value of a wine for feasibility of filling an aluminum can, the method comprising: acquiring a pH, an alcohol concentration, and a free sulfite concentration for multiple kinds of wines; calculating a molecular SO2 concentration of each of the multiple kinds of wines from acquired values of the pH, the alcohol concentration, and the free sulfite concentration; enclosing the multiple kinds of wines into aluminum cans of an identical type, respectively, thereby obtaining multiple kinds of canned wines; putting the multiple kinds of canned wines in storage and evaluating quality of the canned wines after the storage; and determining an upper limit value of the molecular SO2 concentration based on an evaluation result obtained from the evaluating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Akira NAGASHIMA, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Sin OU
  • Publication number: 20240005644
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises one or more processors, and one or more memories storing executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the image capturing control apparatus to function as: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire a degree of training of a training target in a training model, a second acquiring unit configured to acquire, based on degrees of training of a plurality of training targets, a sampling probability of an image of each of the plurality of training targets, and a training unit configured to perform training of the training model, based on a sampling image that is sampled from images of the plurality of training targets based on the sampling probability acquired by the second acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Koichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230380847
    Abstract: Ultrasound oscillators emit ultrasonic waves. An ultrasonic driving part drives the ultrasound oscillators such that the ultrasonic waves propagates in a first direction D1 from one side toward the other side and propagates in a second direction D2 opposite to the first direction D1 in a structure S. The ultrasonic driving part drives the ultrasound oscillators by changing frequencies of the ultrasound oscillators such that a current value flowing through the ultrasound oscillators is a maximal current value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei HIGASHI, Koichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230315047
    Abstract: A method for detecting an endpoint of a seasoning process for a plasma tool includes (a) operating the plasma tool to run a seasoning recipe on at least one seasoning wafer before running a monitoring recipe on at least one monitoring wafer; (b) collecting, while running the monitoring recipe on the monitoring wafer, monitoring data associated with the running the monitoring recipe; and (c) generating an estimated product parameter using a virtual metrology (VM) model that is configured to estimate a product parameter using the monitoring data. The VM model is based on production data associated with running a production recipe on production wafers and product parameters of the production wafers measured after the running the production recipe. The endpoint of the seasoning process is obtained by repeating (a), (b) and (c), and the endpoint is obtained when the estimated product parameter stabilizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Jun SHINAGAWA, Brian PFEIFER, John SOLIS, Brian GESSLER, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Yutaka HIROOKA
  • Publication number: 20230240701
    Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment tool includes a grip part that grips a structure in a subject; and an ultrasound oscillator unit that is provided in the grip part and disposed at a position facing the gripped structure. A piezoelectric material constituting the ultrasound oscillator unit has a mechanical quality coefficient of 500 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei HIGASHI, Koichiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11634586
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new glitter pigment suitable for providing high-brightness whitish reflected light. The glitter pigment according to the present invention includes: a flaky substrate 1; and a silicon oxide layer 2 and a titanium oxide layer 3 formed in this order on the flaky substrate 1, wherein in the case where the flaky substrate is the glass flake, the glass flake has a thickness of 284 to 322 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 89 to 109 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 51 to 86 nm. In the case where the flaky substrate is the alumina flake, the alumina flake has a thickness of 260 to 280 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 79 to 102 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 47 to 87 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakamura, Masahiro Hioki
  • Publication number: 20230110637
    Abstract: A low-refractive-index film 10 includes a first layer 11 and a second layer 12. The first layer 11 is adjacent to a substrate 20. The low-refractive-index film 10 has a refractive index of greater than or equal to 1.01 and less than or equal to 1.30. The first layer 11 and the second layer 12 each include hollow particles 13 and a binder 14. The first layer 11 satisfies, for example, at least one selected from a group of conditions (I) and (II) described below. (I) A number density ?v1 of voids 15 each having a cross-sectional area of greater than or equal to 1000 nm2 is greater than or equal to 5/?m2 and less than or equal to 100/?m2 on a cross-section of the first layer 11. (II) A ratio of a cross-sectional area of the voids 15 on the cross-section to a total area of the cross-section of the first layer 11 is greater than or equal to 5% and less than or equal to 70%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Satoru KUSAKA, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Hisao IMAI, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230067730
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain feature vectors related to a first category from a vector group; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain feature vectors related to a second category from the vector group; a calculation unit configured to calculate a transformation matrix for converting a projection source vector obtained based on a feature vector obtained by the second obtaining unit into a projection destination vector obtained based on a feature vector obtained by the first obtaining unit; and a generation unit configured to generate a pseudo feature vector related to a third category by performing conversion processing on feature vectors included in the feature vectors obtained by the second obtaining unit using the transformation matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Koichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220300270
    Abstract: An update management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, version information of a program of a moving object control unit, and moving object information which is detected information; and a generation unit configured to generate normal range information indicating a normal range of the moving object information, wherein the generation unit is configured to generate, based on the moving object information detected by a moving object whose program of the moving object control unit is a first version, normal range information of the first version, and identify, a moving object whose moving object information detected when the version of the program is the first version is within the normal range of the first version, and use the moving object information detected by the identified moving object when the version of the program is the second version, to generate the normal range information of the second version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki TAKI, Koichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220291919
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided in a movable object, and communicates with an external server. The communication apparatus includes a communication control unit for controlling communication with the server, and controlling communication with a movable object control unit controlling the movable object and communication with an update control unit controlling program update of the movable object control unit. The communication control unit performs, when control on the movable object control unit is to be performed from the server, control to receive a first startup request and a command for the movable object control unit from the server, start up and control the movable object control unit, and performs, when control related to program update of the movable object control unit is to be performed from the server, control to receive a second startup request for the update control unit from the server, and start up the update control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Koichiro NAKAMURA, Yosuke SHIONOYA, Genta INOUE, Tomoaki TAKI, Koji KAJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20220222062
    Abstract: Provided is a control system, including: an acquisition unit, configured to acquire, from an mobile object, version information of each of a plurality of programs for controlling each of a plurality of mobile object control units included in the mobile object; a storage control unit, configured to store the acquired version information; a selection unit, configured to select an update program of at least one mobile object control unit among the plurality of mobile object control units; and an output control unit, configured to output the selected update program to the mobile object, wherein the selection unit is configured to select update program of at least one mobile object control unit among a plurality of mobile object control units included in the mobile object, based on the newly acquired version information, when the newly acquired version information newly acquired is not consistent with the stored version information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki TAKI, Yosuke SHIONOYA, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Kohei YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220222061
    Abstract: A control system comprises a mobile object control unit for controlling a mobile object; an update control unit for controlling reception of an update program of the mobile object control unit from a server and controlling update of the mobile object control unit by the program; an acquisition unit for acquiring reception information indicating a communication manner for receiving from the server for each program; and a communication control unit for controlling receiving the program from the server, based on the reception information, wherein the acquisition unit is for, when both a first update program and a second update program received after update by the first update program is executed have not been received, acquiring information about change of reception information of the first update program, and the communication control unit is for controlling receiving the first update program based on the information about change acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Tomoaki TAKI, Koichiro NAKAMURA, Shoichi KURAOKA
  • Patent number: 11292918
    Abstract: A colorant-containing solid material (1) of the present invention includes a colorant (10) and a matrix (20). The matrix (20) is formed of a silica and a polysilsesquioxane and covers the colorant (10). An absorption intensity derived from a hydrocarbon group that is not directly bonded to a silicon atom, an absorption intensity derived from a bond between a silicon atom and a non-reactive functional group, and an absorption intensity derived from a bond between a silicon atom and a hydroxy group, determined by an infrared spectroscopic analysis based on a KBr pellet method using a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, are denoted as Ia, Ib and Ic, respectively. The colorant-containing solid material (1) satisfies at least one of conditions Ib/Ia?1.1 and Ib/Ic?0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakamura, Kazuhiro Doshita, Haruko Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11274211
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glitter pigment capable of simultaneously achieving electromagnetic wave transmission properties, a high reflectance in appearance, and a neutral color in appearance. The glitter pigment according to the present invention includes: a glass flake 1; and a titanium oxide layer 2 and a silver layer 3 formed in this order on the glass flake 1, wherein a product of the optical thickness of the glass flake 1 and the optical thickness of the titanium oxide layer 2 is 61000 or more and 66000 or less when the optical thickness is expressed in nm, and the silver layer 3 has a physical thickness of 35 nm or more and 55 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Koichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210253866
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new glitter pigment suitable for providing high-brightness whitish reflected light. The glitter pigment according to the present invention includes: a flaky substrate 1; and a silicon oxide layer 2 and a titanium oxide layer 3 formed in this order on the flaky substrate 1, wherein in the case where the flaky substrate is the glass flake, the glass flake has a thickness of 284 to 322 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 89 to 109 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 51 to 86 nm. In the case where the flaky substrate is the alumina flake, the alumina flake has a thickness of 260 to 280 nm, the silicon oxide layer has a thickness of 79 to 102 nm, and the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of 47 to 87 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Koichiro NAKAMURA, Masahiro HIOKI