Patents by Inventor Masahiro Iwata

Masahiro Iwata 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: 20240385003
    Abstract: The voice output device includes an utterance setting unit, a determination unit and a voice overlap prevention unit. The utterance setting unit sets a plurality of utterance points and a plurality of utterance contents for the plurality of utterance points, based on a route a destination of a vehicle. The determination unit determines whether or not a first voice output corresponding to a first utterance content at a first utterance point among the plurality of utterance points and a second voice output corresponding to a second utterance content at a second utterance point among the plurality of utterance points overlap at least partly, based on a speed of the vehicle traveling along the route. The voice overlap prevention unit performs processing for preventing overlap of the first voice output and the second voice output, based on a priority set in advance, when it is determined that the first voice output and the second voice output overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shota IZUMI, Masahiro IWATA, Yohei ONUMA, Kotaro FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230358556
    Abstract: An information providing device is provided which can provide necessary guidance in an intuitively and easy-to-recognize form even when guidance is mainly by audio or sound. In searching for a route destination, when the distance to the destination is within a prescribed distance, guidance that includes information indicating the distance to the destination is provided by audio, and when the destination is farther than said prescribed distance, guidance that includes address information indicating the address of the destination is provided by audio (steps S28, S30, S17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUI, Masahiro IWATA, Shinichiro IINO, Shota IZUMI, Yohei ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20230300274
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire user information that is information for identifying a user who has entered a facility, detect a position of the user in the facility, transmit the user information to an apparatus that is installed in the facility in a case in which it is detected that the user is present at a position where the apparatus is operable, receive operation information, which is information of an operation of the user, from the apparatus, and charge the user according to the operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro IWATA
  • Publication number: 20230228586
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information provision device and the like capable of reliably providing necessary guidance information while reducing the amount of audio information that is necessary for processing. The information provision device is provided with: a guidance voice output control unit 1 and a speaker 10 which output a guidance voice; a microphone 11 and a collected sound transmission unit 2 which collect sounds that are made after the guidance voice starts to be output, wherein the guidance voice output control unit 1 and the speaker 10 output re-guidance voice corresponding to the guidance voice, on the basis of the result of determination of whether the collected sounds include a specific sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUI, Masahiro IWATA, Shinichiro IINO, Shota IZUMI, Yohei ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20230122565
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an information providing device and the like capable of simplifying entry into a road to be entered, even using guidance by voice or the like. This information providing device is provided with: a route searching unit 1 which acquires both road data 23a and intersection data 23b; and a guidance voice generating unit 2 which, on the basis of the acquired road data 23a and the like, outputs, while moving along a wider road, a simplified guidance voice for moving to a narrower road, in such a way that it is simple to enter the narrower road from the wider road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUI, Masahiro IWATA, Shinichiro IINO, Shota IZUMI, Yohei ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20230003538
    Abstract: The information processing device provides information relating to a movement of a mobile body. The receiving unit receives an information request. The load determination unit determines a load of a driver with respect to a driving of the mobile body. The voice output unit outputs, in response to the information request, a basic information when the load is large, and an additional information in addition to the basic information when the load is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUI, Masahiro IWATA, Shota IZUMI, Yohei ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20220301432
    Abstract: A disclosed voice guidance device or server device includes a route information acquisition unit, a position information acquisition unit, a voice guiding unit, and a notification unit. The route information acquisition unit is configured to acquire route information indicative of a route on which a moving body travels. The position information acquisition unit is configured to acquire position information of the moving body. The voice guiding unit is configured to perform a voice guidance relating to the route. The notification unit is configured to perform a notification by voice that the moving body is traveling along the route, if the moving body is travelling along the route and the voice guiding unit has not performed the voice guidance during travel of the moving body for a predetermined distance or for a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUI, Masahiro IWATA, Shota IZUMI, Yohei ONUMA
  • Patent number: 11416196
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores set contents that are obtained by changing standard set contents, a reception unit that receives information regarding the set contents, a search unit that searches, based on the information received by the reception unit, contents stored in the memory unit for the changed set contents that correspond to the information, and a display control unit that performs control in such a manner as to display a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 11228689
    Abstract: A routine processing device includes a processor. In routine processing, an application parameter that defines an operation of an application and a system parameter that defines an operation of a system that is an environment where the application is executed are registered. The processor is configured to, if the system parameter at a time of the registration and a system parameter set in the system at a time when the routine processing is to be executed do not match, change the system parameter at the time of the registration in the routine processing to the system parameter set in the system at the time when the routine processing is to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 11075312
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes solar cells having main surfaces to which inter-cell wiring members are connected, and an insulating member disposed on the main surfaces and the wiring members, and a first lead-out wire provided to the insulating member. The insulating member includes a first insulating layer formed of polyester resin, a second insulating layer formed of polyolefin or EVA and provided between the first insulating layer and the lead-out wires, and a third insulating layer formed of polyolefin or EVA and provided between the first insulating layer and the main surfaces. The third insulating layer has a thickness in a direction perpendicular to the main surfaces larger than a thickness of the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youhei Murakami, Haruhisa Hashimoto, Tasuku Ishiguro, Masahiro Iwata, Hiroyuki Kannou, Ryoji Naito, Kazuki Ohta
  • Publication number: 20210099589
    Abstract: A routine processing device includes a processor. In routine processing, an application parameter that defines an operation of an application and a system parameter that defines an operation of a system that is an environment where the application is executed are registered. The processor is configured to, if the system parameter at a time of the registration and a system parameter set in the system at a time when the routine processing is to be executed do not match, change the system parameter at the time of the registration in the routine processing to the system parameter set in the system at the time when the routine processing is to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro IWATA
  • Patent number: 10936158
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 10879410
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a solar cell; a conductive light-reflective film disposed on a back surface side of the solar cell, the conductive light-reflective film extending from an edge portion of the solar cell; an insulating member disposed between a back surface of the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film; and a back-surface side encapsulant covering the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film from the back surface side of the solar cell, wherein the insulating member is made of a material harder than a material of the back-surface side encapsulant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwata, Tasuku Ishiguro, Haruhisa Hashimoto, Youhei Murakami, Akimichi Maekawa, Shingo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200089448
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores set contents that are obtained by changing standard set contents, a reception unit that receives information regarding the set contents, a search unit that searches, based on the information received by the reception unit, contents stored in the memory unit for the changed set contents that correspond to the information, and a display control unit that performs control in such a manner as to display a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro IWATA
  • Publication number: 20190107928
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI ZEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro IWATA
  • Patent number: 10180770
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
  • Publication number: 20180331243
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a plurality of solar cells; a front surface encapsulant member which is disposed on a front surface side of the plurality of solar cells and includes a first polyolefin-based material; a back surface encapsulant member which is disposed on a back surface side of the plurality of solar cells and includes a second polyolefin-based material; an intermediate member which is disposed between the front surface encapsulant member and the back surface encapsulant member and includes a polymer material having either one of a higher polarity and a higher water absorbability than the first polyolefin-based material and the second polyolefin-based material; and a front surface protective member and a back surface protective member disposed to place the plurality of solar cells, the front surface encapsulant member, and the back surface encapsulant member between the front surface protective member and the back surface protective member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto IMADA, Tasuku ISHIGURO, Akimichi MAEKAWA, Masahiro IWATA
  • Patent number: 10079961
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an extraction unit, and a rewriting unit. The reading unit reads, in a case where an instruction for changing a value of a setting item regarding a service to be provided by the data processing apparatus is issued by a user, a value of the instructed setting item before the change from a predetermined storing region. The extraction unit extracts shortcut information including the value before the change as a parameter value from among plural pieces of shortcut information each including a parameter for shortcut launching of a service to be provided by the data processing apparatus. The rewriting unit rewrites the parameter value included in the extracted shortcut information to a designated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ando, Masahiro Iwata
  • Patent number: 10074759
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a plurality of solar cells; a front surface encapsulant member which is disposed on a front surface side of the plurality of solar cells and includes a first polyolefin-based material; a back surface encapsulant member which is disposed on a back surface side of the plurality of solar cells and includes a second polyolefin-based material; an intermediate member which is disposed between the front surface encapsulant member and the back surface encapsulant member and includes a polymer material having either one of a higher polarity and a higher water absorbability than the first polyolefin-based material and the second polyolefin-based material; and a front surface protective member and a back surface protective member disposed to place the plurality of solar cells, the front surface encapsulant member, and the back surface encapsulant member between the front surface protective member and the back surface protective member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Imada, Tasuku Ishiguro, Akimichi Maekawa, Masahiro Iwata
  • Publication number: 20180013025
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a solar cell; a conductive light-reflective film disposed on a back surface side of the solar cell, the conductive light-reflective film extending from an edge portion of the solar cell; an insulating member disposed between a back surface of the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film; and a back-surface side encapsulant covering the solar cell and the conductive light-reflective film from the back surface side of the solar cell, wherein the insulating member is made of a material harder than a material of the back-surface side encapsulant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro IWATA, Tasuku ISHIGURO, Haruhisa HASHIMOTO, Youhei MURAKAMI, Akimichi MAEKAWA, Shingo OKAMOTO