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).
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Publication number: 20240233248Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device capable of making a situation around a ship comprehensive. The image generating device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires ship data indicative of a two-dimensional position of a ship on a water surface. The processing circuitry places a three-dimensional ship object indicative of the ship, at a position of a virtual water surface in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to a two-dimensional position of the ship. The processing circuitry sets a virtual camera in a bird's-eye view mode in which the three-dimensional ship object is looked down obliquely from a position higher than the three-dimensional ship object. The processing circuitry generates a three-dimensional image in which a sight within a field of view of the virtual camera including the three-dimensional ship object is drawn. The processing circuitry generates an image for indication including the three-dimensional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Naohiro KANAMARU, Koji NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240135635Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image generating device capable of making a situation around a ship comprehensive. The image generating device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires ship data indicative of a two-dimensional position of a ship on a water surface. The processing circuitry places a three-dimensional ship object indicative of the ship, at a position of a virtual water surface in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to a two-dimensional position of the ship. The processing circuitry sets a virtual camera in a bird's-eye view mode in which the three-dimensional ship object is looked down obliquely from a position higher than the three-dimensional ship object. The processing circuitry generates a three-dimensional image in which a sight within a field of view of the virtual camera including the three-dimensional ship object is drawn. The processing circuitry generates an image for indication including the three-dimensional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Naohiro KANAMARU, Koji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11964737Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20240071017Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11852476Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11808579Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20230268174Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11729492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD., FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Seike, Takanori Hisajima, Noriyuki Tomono, Ken Hasegawa, Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20230238534Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Takaya SAITO, Koji NISHIYAMA, Yoshiki TAKAYANAGI, Shuntaro MIYAKAWA, Masaru YAO, Minami KATO, Hisanori ANDO, Nobuhiko TAKEICHI
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Patent number: 11676811Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20230044238Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takaya SAITO, Yoshiki TAKAYANAGI, Koji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11548598Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20220268580Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20220268586Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11415991Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20220185435Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventor: Koji NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20220130117Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11270458Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11270512Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11253295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Tomohiko Fukuhara, Koji Nishiyama, Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Katsuyoshi Sobue, Ryunosuke Seki