Patents by Inventor Koji Namba

Koji Namba 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: 11836942
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve accuracy of position information of an object. A labeling unit 13 of an information integration device 1 associates a label included in tracking data with an object area having a largest ratio of overlapping areas overlapping label areas included in the tracking data with regard to the object area or an object area having a largest size of overlapping areas overlapping label areas included in the tracking data, among a plurality of object areas included in a Depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Patent number: 11418684
    Abstract: Matching timings of transmitting pieces of information for reproducing video and audio with presence and handling loss are provided. An information synchronization device is configured to synchronize, to a reference timestamp, data in which one or more labels for identifying respective one or more subjects on a video and one or more pieces of location information for identifying respective locations of the one or more subjects are respectively associated. The information synchronization device includes a reception unit for receiving the data at each time, a buffer for storing the received data, and a location information interpolation unit for generating, when pieces of the location information at times before and after the reference timestamp is stored into the buffer for any of the labels, location information of the label at the reference timestamp by interpolation using the pieces of the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Publication number: 20220114749
    Abstract: An influence on object expression performed at a transmission destination is reduced. A position information reception unit 11 of an information integration device 1 receives, regarding objects which are measured by a plurality of sensors from a plurality of locations and overlap in any of the locations, position information for each location on areas of the objects. A position information integration unit 13 calculates smallest rectangles or largest rectangles surrounding the objects by using the position information for each location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Publication number: 20220028105
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve accuracy of position information of an object. A labeling unit 13 of an information integration device 1 associates a label included in tracking data with an object area having a largest ratio of overlapping areas overlapping label areas included in the tracking data with regard to the object area or an object area having a largest size of overlapping areas overlapping label areas included in the tracking data, among a plurality of object areas included in a Depth map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Publication number: 20210344815
    Abstract: Matching timings of transmitting pieces of information for reproducing video and audio with presence and handling loss are provided. An information synchronization device is configured to synchronize, to a reference timestamp, data in which one or more labels for identifying respective one or more subjects on a video and one or more pieces of location information for identifying respective locations of the one or more subjects are respectively associated. The information synchronization device includes a reception unit for receiving the data at each time, a buffer for storing the received data, and a location information interpolation unit for generating, when pieces of the location information at times before and after the reference timestamp is stored into the buffer for any of the labels, location information of the label at the reference timestamp by interpolation using the pieces of the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke Hasegawa, Masato Ono, Koji Namba, Takahide Hoshide, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Akira Ono
  • Patent number: 8695347
    Abstract: A boiling water nuclear power plant supplies steam from a reactor to high-pressure and low-pressure turbines. Feed water generated by condensing steam in a condenser is heated by low-pressure and high-pressure feed water heaters and supplied to the reactor. The steam discharged from the low-pressure turbine is compressed by a steam compressor and supplied to one of the low-pressure feed water heaters to heat feed water. The steam extracted from the low-pressure turbine is supplied to the low-pressure feed water heater. When power required for the steam compressor is Q1, heat energy supplied from the steam compressor is Q3, a coefficient of performance of the steam compressor is COP (=Q3/Q1), and a thermal efficiency of the boiling water nuclear power plant is ?, the steam compression apparatus is connected to a position in a main steam system and to the feed water heater so as to satisfy COP?1/?>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Koji Namba, Fumio Takahashi, Koji Nishida, Susumu Nakano, Takanori Shibata
  • Patent number: 8448439
    Abstract: An electric power plant supplies steam generated to a high-pressure turbine and a low-pressure turbine. The steam discharged from the low-pressure turbine is condensed with a condenser. Water generated with the condenser is heated with a low-pressure feed water heater and a high-pressure feed water heater. The steam extracted from the high-pressure turbine is supplied to the high-pressure feed water heater. The steam extracted from the low-pressure turbine is compressed with a steam compressor, and the steam whose temperature has been increased is then supplied to the high-pressure feed water heater. The feed water is heated in the high-pressure feed water heater by the steam extracted from the high-pressure turbine and the steam compressed with the steam compressor. Because the feed water is heated by the extracted steam and the compressed steam in the high-pressure feed water heater, the amount of power consumed by the steam compressor can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Shigeo Hatamiya, Fumio Takahashi, Koji Nishida, Susumu Nakano, Takanori Shibata
  • Publication number: 20120294407
    Abstract: A nuclear power plant and a fuel pool water cooling facility and method are provided that can suppress the decrease of a water level in a fuel pool with no power supply at the time of malfunction of a circulating water system. The nuclear power plant includes a reactor pressure vessel 2 that encompasses a reactor 1 containing nuclear fuel; a containment vessel 3 for housing the reactor pressure vessel 2; a fuel pool 11 for storing spent fuel 12; a reactor building 10 that houses the reactor pressure vessel 2, the containment vessel 3 and the fuel pool 11; a circulating water system 21 adapted to forced-circulating-cool the fuel pool water 14 in the fuel pool 11; and at least one heat pipe 13 for transferring heat of the fuel pool water 14 in the fuel pool 11 and discharging the heat to the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Masaya Ohtsuka, Koji Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20120140866
    Abstract: A fast breeder reactor type nuclear power plant system including a reactor vessel provided with a core and a pipe of primary loop coolant for supplying primary loop coolant to the reactor vessel. One or more bending parts are formed on at least the pipe of primary loop coolant of the pipes, and a part of the bending part on a downstream side is provided with a flow path having a non-circular sectional configuration wherein the negative side of the bending part is formed in either a planar or flat shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Koji Fujimura, Satoshi Itooka, Kazuhiro Fujimata
  • Publication number: 20110286569
    Abstract: A fast breeder reactor type nuclear power plant system including a reactor vessel provided with a core and a pipe of primary loop coolant for supplying primary loop coolant to the reactor vessel. One or more bending parts are formed on at least the pipe of primary loop coolant of the pipes, and a part of the bending part on a downstream side is provided with a flow path having a non-circular sectional configuration wherein the negative side of the bending part is formed in either a planar or flat shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Koji Fujimura, Satoshi Itooka, Kazuhiro Fujimata
  • Publication number: 20110283704
    Abstract: A boiling water nuclear power plant supplies steam from a reactor to high-pressure and low-pressure turbines. Water (feed water) generated by condensing steam in a condenser is heated by low-pressure and high-pressure feed water heaters and supplied to the reactor. The steam discharged from the low-pressure turbine is compressed by a steam compression apparatus (a heat pump) and supplied to one of the low-pressure feed water heaters to heat feed water. The steam extracted from the low-pressure turbine is also supplied to the low-pressure feed water heater. When power required for the steam compression apparatus is Q1, heat energy supplied from the steam compression apparatus is Q3, a coefficient of performance of the steam compression apparatus is COP )(=Q3/Q1), and a thermal efficiency of the boiling water nuclear power plant is ?, the steam compression apparatus is connected to a position in a main steam system and to the feed water heater so as to satisfy COP?1/?>0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Koji Namba, Fumio Takahashi, Koji Nishida, Susumu Nakano, Takanori Shibata
  • Publication number: 20110005225
    Abstract: An electric power plant, e.g., a boiling water reactor nuclear power plant supplies steam generated in a nuclear reactor to a high-pressure turbine and a low-pressure turbine. The steam discharged from the low-pressure turbine is condensed with a condenser. Water generated with the condenser, used as feed water, flows through a feed water pipe, is heated with a low-pressure feed water heater and a high-pressure feed water heater, and then supplied to the nuclear reactor. The steam extracted from the high-pressure turbine is supplied to the high-pressure feed water heater. The steam extracted from the low-pressure turbine is compressed with a steam compressor, and the steam whose temperature has been increased is then supplied to the high-pressure feed water heater. The feed water to be directed to the nuclear reactor is heated in the high-pressure feed water heater by both the steam extracted from the high-pressure turbine and the steam compressed with the steam compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Shigeo Hatamiya, Fumio Takahashi, Koji Nishida, Susumu Nakano, Takanori Shibata
  • Publication number: 20090122944
    Abstract: A fast breeder reactor type nuclear power plant system including a reactor vessel provided with a core and a pipe of primary loop coolant for supplying primary loop coolant to the reactor vessel. One or more bending parts are formed on at least the pipe of primary loop coolant of the pipes, and a part of the bending part on a downstream side is provided with a flow path having a non-circular sectional configuration wherein the negative side of the bending part is formed in either a planar or flat shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Koji Namba, Koji Fujimura, Satoshi Itooka, Kazuhiro Fujimata