Patents by Inventor Koji Nishiyama

Koji Nishiyama 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: 11964737
    Abstract: A ship information displaying system can easily grasp the size of a ship intuitively. The system includes a position detector that detects a position of a ship and generates positional data, a direction detector that detects a heading of the ship and generates directional data, a memory that stores size data indicative of a flat dimension of the ship on the basis of a detected location of the positional data in the ship, processing circuitry that places a ship object indicative of the ship at a position in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to the positional data, with an orientation corresponding to the directional data and a size corresponding to the size data and that generates an image containing the ship object by rendering a scene based on a viewpoint position and a line-of-sight direction set in the virtual three-dimensional space, and a display that displays the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20240091597
    Abstract: To improve repulsion performance when a ball is hit by a racket. Grommets each include a strip-shaped portion and a cylinder portion protruding from one surface of the strip-shaped portion. The cylinder portion includes a plurality of ribs extending along an extending direction of a central axis of a cylinder main body. The plurality of ribs is constituted of first ribs protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and second ribs protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion. Two or more of the first ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and one or more of the second ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: YONEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi KATO, Hiroki NISHIYAMA, Koji NAGASAWA, Nao INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240084753
    Abstract: A control device and method controls a vehicle having an internal combustion engine connected to an automatic transmission via a torque converter with a lockup device. The torque of the internal combustion engine is limited the by a torque limit value based on a speed difference between an input rotational speed and an output rotational speed of the torque converter during acceleration in a non-lockup state. The torque-limiting of the internal combustion engine is prohibited torque-limiting upon a prescribed condition being met. The prescribed condition is met by a heating request, during hill climbing/towing, during travel at high vehicle speeds, when the accelerator pedal opening angle exceeds or is equal to a prescribed opening angle, when the torque limit value is greater than a target torque, in a range other than a D range, or in a mode other than normal mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIYAMA, Daigo KISHI, Tatsuo NAKANO, Seiichirou TAKAHASHI, Koji SAITO, Yukiyoshi INUTA, Takao ARIMATSU, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240071017
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire positional information indicative of a position of a water-surface movable body where an imaging device is to be installed, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of a plurality of locations, generate three-dimensional display data for displaying a graphic indicative of the additional display information by superimposedly placing the graphic on a water surface portion of an image outputted from the imaging device based on the positional information, the posture information, and the positions of the plurality of locations included in the additional display information, and output the graphic rendering the three-dimensional display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11852476
    Abstract: A tidal current display data generation apparatus for a movable body, for displaying tidal current information on a display screen, includes a tidal current information receiving terminal configured to receive tidal current information including a position of a tidal current on a chart of a region including the movable body, and a plurality of predicted tidal current directions of the tidal current at the position at a corresponding plurality of time instants, and a tidal current display data generation terminal configured to generate an indicator including a time scale determined according to the plurality of time instants, determine position of each predicted tidal current direction on the time scale at respective time instant, generate a plurality of symbols for respective positions on the time scale, each symbol indicating respective predicted tidal current direction at respective time instant, and output the indicator including the plurality of symbols to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11808579
    Abstract: An augmented reality based tidal current display device for superimposing tidal current information on an image displayed on a display screen includes an image information terminal configured to receive the image captured by an image sensor, and output image data for displaying on the display screen; an image sensor information terminal configured to receive and store image sensor information of the image sensor; a tidal current information terminal configured to receive and store tidal current information of the water surface; and processing circuitry configured to: select tidal currents, calculate a corresponding display position and direction of each selected tidal current on the display screen based on the tidal current information and the image sensor information, generate a symbol to indicate the corresponding display position and direction on the display screen, and superimpose the symbol at a respective display position to the corresponding display position on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20230268174
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning device that includes a rotation holder and a cleaner. The rotation holder includes a rotator provided to be rotatable about a rotation axis, and a holder provided at the rotator to be capable of holding a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11729492
    Abstract: An image generation device includes an image capturing unit installed on a water moving object, a target information acquisition unit which acquires target information about a target, an augmented image generation unit which generates an augmented image in which the target information acquired by the target information acquisition unit is displayed in a captured image captured by the image capturing unit, a marker display unit which displays a marker for selecting the target by a user such that the marker moves according to a display place of the target in the augmented image, and a marker moving unit moves the display place of at least one of a plurality of the markers so that determination regions which determining that each marker has been selected do not overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD., FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Seike, Takanori Hisajima, Noriyuki Tomono, Ken Hasegawa, Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20230238534
    Abstract: An active material used in a secondary battery includes a heterocyclic chemical compound including one or more pyrazine rings and two or more benzene rings, or a salt or derivative thereof. The heterocyclic chemical compound is preferably a chemical compound in which at least 4 oxygen atoms are bonded to the benzene ring. The active material used in the secondary battery may also include phenazine or a salt or derivative thereof. The phenazines are preferably chemical compounds in which at least 4 oxygen atoms are bonded to a benzene ring included in a phenazine structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya SAITO, Koji NISHIYAMA, Yoshiki TAKAYANAGI, Shuntaro MIYAKAWA, Masaru YAO, Minami KATO, Hisanori ANDO, Nobuhiko TAKEICHI
  • Patent number: 11676811
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning device that includes a rotation holder and a cleaner. The rotation holder includes a rotator provided to be rotatable about a rotation axis, and a holder provided at the rotator to be capable of holding a substrate. The cleaner includes a cleaning tool provided to be capable of removing foreign matter on a back surface of the substrate by polishing, a mover that moves the cleaning tool while pressing the cleaning tool against the back surface of the substrate held by the holder, and a cleaning brush that further cleans the back surface of the substrate, which has been cleaned or is being cleaned by the cleaning tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20230044238
    Abstract: Provided is a system including: a management unit configured to manage a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel, in which the management unit is configured to control the plurality of battery packs to cause the plurality of battery packs to be discharged alternately so that a discharge rate of each of the plurality of battery packs becomes higher than the discharge rate in a case of discharging all of the plurality of battery packs. The plurality of battery packs include a plurality of left-hand side battery packs and a plurality of right-hand side battery packs, and the management unit is configured to manage the plurality of battery packs to cause at least one of the plurality of battery packs in each of the plurality of left-hand side battery packs and the plurality of right-hand side battery packs to be discharged at a time in order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Takaya SAITO, Yoshiki TAKAYANAGI, Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11548598
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide an image generating device which generates a synthesized image from which one is able to intuitively grasp a relation between an image and a traveling position of a water-surface movable body. The image generating device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires attitude information indicative of an attitude of a camera or a ship where the camera is installed. The processing circuitry acquires a traveling route of the ship based on a detection result of at least one of a position and a direction of the ship. The processing circuitry generates traveling route display data based on the attitude information and the traveling route. The processing circuitry generates a synthesized image in which the traveling route display data is synthesized with an image outputted from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20220268580
    Abstract: A tidal current display data generation apparatus for a movable body, for displaying tidal current information on a display screen, includes a tidal current information receiving terminal configured to receive tidal current information including a position of a tidal current on a chart of a region including the movable body, and a plurality of predicted tidal current directions of the tidal current at the position at a corresponding plurality of time instants, and a tidal current display data generation terminal configured to generate an indicator including a time scale determined according to the plurality of time instants, determine position of each predicted tidal current direction on the time scale at respective time instant, generate a plurality of symbols for respective positions on the time scale, each symbol indicating respective predicted tidal current direction at respective time instant, and output the indicator including the plurality of symbols to the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220268586
    Abstract: An augmented reality based tidal current display device for superimposing tidal current information on an image displayed on a display screen includes an image information terminal configured to receive the image captured by an image sensor, and output image data for displaying on the display screen; an image sensor information terminal configured to receive and store image sensor information of the image sensor; a tidal current information terminal configured to receive and store tidal current information of the water surface ; and processing circuitry configured to: select tidal currents, calculate a corresponding display position and direction of each selected tidal current on the display screen based on the tidal current information and the image sensor information, generate a symbol to indicate the corresponding display position and direction on the display screen, and superimpose the symbol at a respective display position to the corresponding display position on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11415991
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device to be installed in a water-surface movable body, place a virtual camera based on positional information and posture information, place additional display information as a 3D virtual reality object, place a virtual projection screen subdivided by a mesh distorted in the opposite direction of lens distortion in the captured image, convert vertexes of the virtual reality object and of the mesh faces by a vertex shader based on a position and a direction of the virtual camera into positions in a 2D virtual screen, place image pieces of the captured image to the corresponding mesh by a pixel shader based on the positions of the vertexes in the virtual screen, and generate a synthesized image where a graphic rendering the virtual reality object is synthesized with the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20220185435
    Abstract: A ship information displaying system can easily grasp the size of a ship intuitively. The system includes a position detector that detects a position of a ship and generates positional data, a direction detector that detects a heading of the ship and generates directional data, a memory that stores size data indicative of a flat dimension of the ship on the basis of a detected location of the positional data in the ship, processing circuitry that places a ship object indicative of the ship at a position in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to the positional data, with an orientation corresponding to the directional data and a size corresponding to the size data and that generates an image containing the ship object by rendering a scene based on a viewpoint position and a line-of-sight direction set in the virtual three-dimensional space, and a display that displays the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220130117
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire positional information indicative of a position of a water-surface movable body where an imaging device is to be installed, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of a plurality of locations, generate three-dimensional display data for displaying a graphic indicative of the additional display information by superimposedly placing the graphic on a water surface portion of an image outputted from the imaging device based on the positional information, the posture information, and the positions of the plurality of locations included in the additional display information, and output the graphic rendering the three-dimensional display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11270512
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire positional information indicative of a position of a water-surface movable body where an imaging device is to be installed, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of a plurality of locations, generate three-dimensional display data for displaying a graphic indicative of the additional display information by superimposedly placing the graphic on a water surface portion of an image outputted from the imaging device based on the positional information, the posture information, and the positions of the plurality of locations included in the additional display information, and output the graphic rendering the three-dimensional display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11270458
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device that includes processing circuitry configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging device to be installed in a water-surface movable body, acquire positional information indicative of a position of the water-surface movable body, acquire posture information indicative of a posture of the water-surface movable body, acquire additional display information including information indicative of positions of one or more locations, generate a synthesized image where a graphic rendering a three-dimensional virtual reality object indicative of the additional display information is synthesized on the captured image based on the positional information, the posture information, and the additional display information, and place the graphic across a boundary of the captured image when the captured image is placed only in a certain portion of the synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11253295
    Abstract: Provided is a vertebral spacer including a columnar main-body portion attached to individual cut end portions of the cut vertebral arch by screws, wherein the main-body portion is provided with two accommodating holes formed inside the main-body portion at positions spaced in a longitudinal direction of the main-body portion, and individually accommodating head portions of the screws, the individual accommodating holes are provided with openings through which the head portions are inserted into the accommodating holes from outside the main-body portion, and the openings have diameters greater than diameters of shaft portions of the screws, smaller than diameters of the head portions, and increased to a size that is greater than the diameters of the head portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Fukuhara, Koji Nishiyama, Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Katsuyoshi Sobue, Ryunosuke Seki