Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kobayashi

Masahiro Kobayashi 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: 20220252139
    Abstract: The variable-speed accelerator includes an electric device, a transmission device, and a power supply portion that supplies electric power of a constant rated frequency supplied from a power supply to the electric device when the electric device is started. The electric device includes a constant-speed electric motor that rotates a constant-speed input shaft of the transmission device, and a variable-speed electric motor that functions as a generator in a generator mode and also functions as an electric motor in an electric motor mode. When starting the electric device, the power supply portion supplies the electric power generated by the variable-speed electric motor in the generator mode to the constant-speed electric motor after supplying starting power to the constant-speed electric motor and the variable-speed electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 11412163
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including a plurality of pixels each including a first photoelectric conversion unit that one pupil-divided part of an incident light enters and a second photoelectric conversion unit that another pupil-divided part of the incident light enters, each of the plurality of pixels is configured to output a first signal based on charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal based on at least charges generated by the second photoelectric conversion unit in one frame period, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel that are arranged on columns different from each other and arranged on a single row, and the first pixel and the second pixel are subjected to different control from each other in the one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220246661
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel area, a second substrate disposed in a multilayer structure on the first substrate, and a heat dissipation structure. The second substrate includes a processing unit configured to execute a machine learning process on an image signal output from the pixel area. The heat dissipation structure is disposed in a region adjacent to or in a region overlapping the processing unit when seen in a plan view, the processing unit. The heat dissipation structure is formed on the first or second substrate by a semiconductor active region, polysilicon, a structure including a metal connection part, a TSV structure, or a cavity structure, or the heat dissipation structure is attached to the first substrate in an area other than the pixel area. When the structure is formed on the first substrate, it is electrically connected to the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya Itano, Masahiro Kobayashi, Kohichi Nakamura, Atsushi Furubayashi
  • Publication number: 20220246664
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel area and a second substrate superimposed on the first substrate, a first processing unit for processing signals output from a plurality of pixels, and a second processing unit for performing processing based on a calculation model. At least part of the first processing unit and at least part of the second processing unit are disposed on either the first substrate or the second substrate. A first power supply voltage to the first processing unit and a second power supply voltage to the second processing unit are supplied via different paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220247966
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a second substrate layered on the first substrate and including an AD conversion portion including a plurality of AD conversion circuits configured to convert a signal output from the first substrate into a digital signal, wherein the second substrate further includes a plurality of signal processing units including a first signal processing unit and a second signal processing unit both configured to perform machine learning processing, wherein each of a plurality of sets includes a plurality of AD conversion circuits that differ between the plurality of sets, wherein the first signal processing unit is arranged to correspond to one of the plurality of sets, and wherein the second signal processing unit is arranged to correspond to another one of the plurality of sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Kei Ochiai, Yoshiaki Takada, Masaki Sato, Masahiro Kobayashi, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tetsuya Itano, Nao Nakatsuji, Yasuhiro Oguro
  • Publication number: 20220247948
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a second substrate including a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing using machine learning on a signal output from the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed on the first substrate in a multilayer structure. The signal processing circuit is so disposed to overlap with a pixel array but not overlap with a light-shielded pixel area as seen in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Masahiro Kobayashi, Tatsuya Ryoki, Kohichi Nakamura, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hiroaki Kameyama, Yasuhiro Oguro
  • Publication number: 20220243736
    Abstract: A geared compressor includes a plurality of compression units and a compression-unit-driving mechanism which drives the plurality of compression units. The compression-unit-driving mechanism includes a plurality of driven gears which are provided in respective rotation shafts of the plurality of compression units and a plurality of large-diameter gears which are directly or indirectly driven by a drive source and have outer diameters larger than those of the plurality of driven gears. The plurality of large-diameter gears is arranged side by side in a horizontal direction and each of the plurality of large-diameter gears meshes with two or more of the plurality of driven gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220246663
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel area and a second substrate superimposed on the first substrate, a first processing unit for processing signals output from a plurality of pixels, and a second processing unit for performing processing based on a neural network calculation model. At least part of the first processing unit and at least part of the second processing unit are disposed on either the first substrate or the second substrate. A wiring density of a plurality of first wirings connected to the first processing unit is different from a wiring density of a plurality of second wirings connected to the second processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220247716
    Abstract: An IP address assigning device can reduce registration information required for controlling traffic by including an extraction unit configured to calculate, for traffic between a plurality of user terminals and a plurality of services in a past period, a statistic of the traffic for each of a plurality of combinations of a user terminal, a service, and a time period, and extract a plurality of patterns relating to the traffic based on a plurality of the statistics; a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of user terminals into a plurality of groups based on the patterns; and an assignment unit configured to assign IP addresses belonging to a subnetwork to corresponding ones of the plurality of user terminals for each of the plurality of groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yuka KOMAI, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Shigeaki HARADA
  • Publication number: 20220247979
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus has a first filter arranged so as to correspond to a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second filter arranged so as to correspond to a second photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion apparatus has a first processing unit configured to process an output signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and having a first learned model, and a second processing unit configured to process an output signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit and having a second learned model different from the first learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yoichi Wada, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11342370
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a semiconductor substrate in which photoelectric conversion units are arranged. An insulator is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The insulator has holes associated with the respective photoelectric conversion units. Members are arranged in the respective holes. A light-shielding member is disposed on the opposite side of one of the members from the semiconductor substrate, such that only the associated photoelectric conversion unit is shielded from light. In the solid-state image pickup device, the holes are simultaneously formed and the members are simultaneously formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mineo Shimotsusa, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220158945
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus includes, a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for traffic in a past time period between a plurality of users and a plurality of services, statistics of the traffic in units of combinations of the users, the services, and time zones, an extraction unit configured to extract, based on the statistics, a plurality of patterns from the traffic, a classification unit configured to classify, by pattern, at least one of each user or each service into groups, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the classification result from the classification unit and the statistics, per-time-zone statistics for each group, and a third calculation unit configured to apply a prediction technique to the per-time-zone statistics for each group, to calculate, for each group, a prediction value of the statistics for a time period later than the past time period, resulting improved accuracy of traffic prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuka KOMAI, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Shigeaki HARADA, Tatsuaki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11297273
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels each having: a photoelectric conversion unit; a first charge holding unit; a second charge holding unit; a first gate; and a second gate. In a period when the photoelectric conversion unit is storing charges to be transferred to the first charge holding unit, the potential of the first gate is set to a first potential, and the potential of the second gate is set to a second potential. Both the first potential and the second potential are higher than the potential of the first gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the first charge holding unit and the potential of the second gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the second charge holding unit. The first potential is lower than the second potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroaki Sano, Hisashi Takado, Takahiro Yamasaki, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11290384
    Abstract: An access source classification apparatus has: a first calculation unit that calculates a statistic related to access to each service by each access source based on a set of access logs indicating access to any service of a plurality of services by any access source of a plurality of access sources; an extraction unit that, for each of the services, calculates an index value indicating distribution of access status to the service for each of the access sources based on the access logs related to the service, and extracts some services based on the index value; a second calculation unit that calculates relevance between each access source and each service extracted by the extraction unit by applying a clustering approach to the statistic; and a classification unit that classifies an access source to any service extracted by the extraction unit into any of groups each including one or more access sources based on the relevance, thereby assisting improvement of efficiency in identifying the terminal type of an a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Komai, Masahiro Kobayashi, Shigeaki Harada, Keisuke Ishibashi, Ryoichi Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20220056292
    Abstract: An ink composition that contains light-emitting nanocrystalline particles, a photopolymerizable component containing at least one photopolymerizable compound and having a Hansen solubility parameter ?p of 3.0 MPa0.5 or more, and a phosphite compound with a partial structure represented by the following formula (1). [In the formula (1), X1 to X3 independently denote an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R1 denotes an alkyl group, and * denotes a bonding arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Otsuki, Mariko Toshimitsu, Masahiro Kobayashi, Minoru Tabuchi, Takayuki Miki, Ikuro Kiyoto
  • Patent number: 11248683
    Abstract: A transmission includes a first shaft which is rotatably supported by a first radial bearing, a ring member which is connected to an end portion of the first shaft, a sun roller which is disposed inside the ring member in a radial direction, a second shaft which extends from the sun roller, a plurality of planetary rollers which are disposed in a state of being in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the ring member and an outer peripheral surface of the sun roller, and a planetary roller supporting member which rotatably supports the planetary roller and restrains a movement of the planetary roller in the circumferential direction, in which the ring member is in contact with the plurality of planetary rollers in a state of pressing the plurality of planetary rollers inward in the radial direction so that the plurality of planetary rollers face the sun roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220024515
    Abstract: A vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle using a vehicle control apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect a state outside a subject vehicle; and a control device. The vehicle control method includes: executing control of recovering a travel trajectory of the subject vehicle to a target trajectory, as ordinary control, by giving a steering amount in a lateral direction with respect to a travel lane of the subject vehicle; using detection data of the sensor to determine whether or not another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane to the travel lane of the subject vehicle; and when determining that the other vehicle is traveling in the adjacent lane ahead of the subject vehicle, increasing a response of the steering amount to a higher response than that in the ordinary control, before the subject vehicle passes the other vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yuta Akamatsu, Masahiro Kobayashi, Yasuhisa Taira, Osamu Fukata, Ko Sato
  • Publication number: 20220021827
    Abstract: Photoelectric conversion device includes first substrate having blocks each including photoelectric converters, and second substrate having at least part of processing circuit for reading out signals from the photoelectric converters. The processing circuit drives driving signal lines for driving the photoelectric converters. The driving signal lines include first signal lines each arranged in the first substrate and commonly assigned to at least two blocks arranged in row direction of the blocks and second signal lines each individually assigned to one block of the blocks. The processing circuit includes transmission lines and selection circuits each corresponding to one second signal line of the second signal lines. Each selection circuit selects one driving signal from driving signals supplied to the transmission lines, and supplies the selected driving signal to the corresponding second signal line of the second signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220004432
    Abstract: A processing request management apparatus includes: an estimation unit which estimates a time required for processing for each of a plurality of processing requests for which desired processing completion times are designated; and a determination unit which determines an execution order of processing for the plurality of processing requests such that a sum of delays of estimated processing completion times based on the required time with respect to the desired processing completion times for the respective processing requests in the plurality of processing requests is minimized, to increase a likelihood of restrictions with respect to processing requests being satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Shigeaki Harada
  • Publication number: 20210408096
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes pixels having adjacent first and second pixels. The pixels each include, in a semiconductor layer of a substrate, a photoelectric conversion portion that generates charges, a charge holding portion that holds the charges, and a floating diffusion layer that converts the charges into a voltage. At least parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel, parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the charge holding portion in the second pixel, and/or parts of the floating diffusion layer in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel overlap each other without physically touching each other in a depth direction of the substrate in a state where a region for separating the at least parts of the charge holding portions and the floating diffusion layers is provided therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichiro Shimizu, Kazutoshi Torashima, Masahiro Kobayashi