Patents by Inventor Kou Watanabe
Kou Watanabe 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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Patent number: 10911722Abstract: An image transmission apparatus is connected to a plurality of cameras that image the interior of a moving body, and includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from an external device of the moving body, an image transmission request and imaging subject information that identifies a passenger to be imaged. The processor selects, based on the imaging subject information, an image captured by at least one camera of the plurality of cameras, and executes processing to remove, from the selected image, other image regions aside from the image region that covers the passenger to be imaged. The transmitter transmits the image that has been processed to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Miyanaka, Masahiko Yamamoto, Kou Watanabe, Tsutomu Uenoyama
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Patent number: 10489641Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190253671Abstract: An image transmission apparatus is connected to a plurality of cameras that image the interior of a moving body, and includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from an external device of the moving body, an image transmission request and imaging subject information that identifies a passenger to be imaged. The processor selects, based on the imaging subject information, an image captured by at least one camera of the plurality of cameras, and executes processing to remove, from the selected image, other image regions aside from the image region that covers the passenger to be imaged. The transmitter transmits the image that has been processed to the external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Ryota MIYANAKA, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Kou WATANABE, Tsutomu UENOYAMA
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Patent number: 10303414Abstract: A server is a projection image control device that can be connected to one or more projectors installed in an aircraft, and comprises a memory and a processor. The memory at least temporarily stores operation information about the aircraft. The projection image control processor determines the display direction of a projection image on the basis of operation information, produces a command to cause the one or more projectors to display a projection image in the determined display direction, and outputs this command.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10248375Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10236713Abstract: A monitor housing apparatus comprises an opening and closing mechanism, a drive motor, a power supply, a backup capacitor, a contact switch, and a controller. The opening and closing mechanism turns a monitor around a rotation shaft. The power supply supplies electrical power to the drive motor. The backup capacitor supplies power to the drive motor in the event that the supply of power from the power supply to the drive motor is shut off. The controller applies voltage to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its deployed state, and halts the application of voltage from the power supply to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its stowed state.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kou Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190050638Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20190012132Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10101957Abstract: An image processing device performs image processing on image data for projection into a projection area. The image processing device comprises a memory and an image processor. The memory at least temporarily stores image data. The image processor specifies a certain area that is part of the projection area and extends from one end of the projection area, and corrects the image data so as to satisfy a certain condition on the basis of the specification of the certain area. The certain condition is that the correction amount A for the brightness of the image data portion to be projected into the certain area and the correction amount B for the brightness of the other image data portion in the projection area satisfy the relation A<B.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Yamamoto, Hideo Onishi, Kou Watanabe
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Patent number: 10063967Abstract: A sound collecting device includes a sound source position input interface that receives input of sound source position information indicating a sound source position, an audio interface that receives input of sound signals collected by two or more sound collecting units placed at predetermined positions in advance, a recording medium in which sound collecting unit placement information indicating placement information of the sound collecting units is stored, and a controller that selects one of the sound signals output from the sound collecting units, based on the sound source position information and the sound collecting unit placement information.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kou Watanabe, Takeshi Hatakeyama
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Publication number: 20180020199Abstract: An image processing device performs image processing on image data for projection into a projection area. The image processing device comprises a memory and an image processor. The memory at least temporarily stores image data. The image processor specifies a certain area that is part of the projection area and extends from one end of the projection area, and corrects the image data so as to satisfy a certain condition on the basis of the specification of the certain area. The certain condition is that the correction amount A for the brightness of the image data portion to be projected into the certain area and the correction amount B for the brightness of the other image data portion in the projection area satisfy the relation A<B.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Hideo ONISHI, Kou WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180018139Abstract: A server is a projection image control device that can be connected to one or more projectors installed in an aircraft, and comprises a memory and a processor. The memory at least temporarily stores operation information about the aircraft. The projection image control processor determines the display direction of a projection image on the basis of operation information, produces a command to cause the one or more projectors to display a projection image in the determined display direction, and outputs this command.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170280238Abstract: A sound collecting device includes a sound source position input interface that receives input of sound source position information indicating a sound source position, an audio interface that receives input of sound signals collected by two or more sound collecting units placed at predetermined positions in advance, a recording medium in which sound collecting unit placement information indicating placement information of the sound collecting units is stored, and a controller that selects one of the sound signals output from the sound collecting units, based on the sound source position information and the sound collecting unit placement information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: YUKI NODA, KOU WATANABE, TAKESHI HATAKEYAMA
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Publication number: 20170230620Abstract: A container use state determining device includes a signal input unit that receives image data generated by photographing at least one container; and a controller that determines a use state of the at least one container photographed from the image data and makes a display device display information indicating the use state based on a determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventor: KOU WATANABE
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Patent number: 9711982Abstract: An information notifying device in accordance with the present disclosure includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, a clock, and a controller. The first communication circuit receives first information regarding an estimated arrival time at which transportation equipment will arrive at a destination. The second communication circuit receives second information regarding a remaining battery capacity of a battery installed in an external device. The clock keeps a current time. The controller calculates a first charging time necessary to charge the external device to a fully charged state based on the second information, and outputs information prompting to charge the external device at a first timing based on the first information, the current time and the first charging time.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kou Watanabe
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Publication number: 20160285294Abstract: An information notifying device in accordance with the present disclosure includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, a clock, and a controller. The first communication circuit receives first information regarding an estimated arrival time at which transportation equipment will arrive at a destination. The second communication circuit receives second information regarding a remaining battery capacity of a battery installed in an external device. The clock keeps a current time. The controller calculates a first charging time necessary to charge the external device to a fully charged state based on the second information, and outputs information prompting to charge the external device at a first timing based on the first information, the current time and the first charging time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Kou WATANABE
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Publication number: 20150311748Abstract: A monitor housing apparatus comprises an opening and closing mechanism, a drive motor, a power supply, a backup capacitor, a contact switch, and a controller. The opening and closing mechanism turns a monitor around a rotation shaft. The power supply supplies electrical power to the drive motor. The backup capacitor supplies power to the drive motor in the event that the supply of power from the power supply to the drive motor is shut off. The controller applies voltage to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its deployed state, and halts the application of voltage from the power supply to the backup capacitor when the contact switch detects that the monitor is in its stowed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventor: Kou WATANABE
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Publication number: 20060164563Abstract: A tuner has a dual AGC function, and frequency-converts an input signal into an IF signal. An orthogonal detector calculates a complex signal from the IF signal. A demodulator demodulates a digital signal from the complex signals. An error corrector corrects the error of the digital signal. A signal level detector calculates a level judgment signal from the IF signal. A demodulation level detector detects a signal level of a demodulation signal on a desired band from an output signal of the demodulator. When a demodulation level judgment unit generates a judgment signal representing an influence from interference waves in adjacent channel affecting on a signal on the desired band from the demodulation signal, a control signal generator feeds back a gain control signal to the tuner in accordance with the judgment signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2004Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Daisuke Hayashi, Hisaya Kato, Tetsuya Yagi
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Patent number: 6642589Abstract: A semiconductor device has first and second active regions defined on the principal surface of a silicon substrate, a first n-channel MOS transistor formed in the first active region and having first extension regions and first pocket regions being deeper than the first extension regions and being doped with indium at a first concentration, and a second n-channel MOS transistor formed in the second active region and having second extension regions and second pocket regions being deeper than the second extension regions and being doped with indium at a second concentration lower than the first concentration. Boron ions may be implanted into the second pocket regions. The pocket regions can be formed by implanting indium ions and an increase in leak current to be caused by indium implantation can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hajime Wada, Kenichi Okabe, Kou Watanabe
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Publication number: 20030030112Abstract: A semiconductor device has first and second active regions defined on the principal surface of a silicon substrate, a first n-channel MOS transistor formed in the first active region and having first extension regions and first pocket regions being deeper than the first extension regions and being doped with indium at a first concentration, and a second n-channel MOS transistor formed in the second active region and having second extension regions and second pocket regions being deeper than the second extension regions and being doped with indium at a second concentration lower than the first concentration. Boron ions may be implanted into the second pocket regions. The pocket regions can be formed by implanting indium ions and an increase in leak current to be caused by indium implantation can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hajime Wada, Kenichi Okabe, Kou Watanabe