Patents by Inventor Masahiro Matsushita
Masahiro Matsushita 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: 11959010Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat storage composition excellent in slow flame retardance and a heat storage member excellent in the slow flame retardance. Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device including a heat storage member, and a manufacturing method of a heat storage member. The heat storage composition according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition A is satisfied. The heat storage member according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a heat storage material and a flame retardant, in which a specific condition C is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Mitsui, Naotoshi Sato, Aya Nakayama, Takuto Matsushita, Masahiro Hatta, Hiroshi Kawakami
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Patent number: 11941045Abstract: There is provided with an image searching apparatus. A searching unit searches a plurality of search target images for an image relating to a query image based on a first similarity to the query image by a first evaluation scheme. A first obtaining unit obtains a feedback indicating correct or incorrect regarding the searched image. A second obtaining unit obtains an evaluation of an effect of changing a similarity evaluation scheme to a second evaluation scheme from the first evaluation scheme in accordance with the feedback. A control unit controls, in accordance with the evaluation of the effect, a search of the plurality of search target images for the image relating to the query image based on a second similarity to the query image by the second evaluation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Matsushita
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Patent number: 11841902Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first search unit configured to search for a feature of an object extracted from a video image in a registration list in which a feature indicating a predetermined object to be detected and identification information for identifying the predetermined object are registered, a generation unit configured to generate a first list in which at least the ID information about the predetermined object corresponding to the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is detected in the registration list and generate a second list in which the feature of the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is not detected in the registration list, and a second search unit configured to search for a target object designated by a user in the first list or the second list.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masahiro Matsushita
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Publication number: 20220075821Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first search unit configured to search for a feature of an object extracted from a video image in a registration list in which a feature indicating a predetermined object to be detected and identification information for identifying the predetermined object are registered, a generation unit configured to generate a first list in which at least the ID information about the predetermined object corresponding to the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is detected in the registration list and generate a second list in which the feature of the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is not detected in the registration list, and a second search unit configured to search for a target object designated by a user in the first list or the second list.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
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Publication number: 20210165818Abstract: There is provided with an image searching apparatus. A searching unit searches a plurality of search target images for an image relating to a query image based on a first similarity to the query image by a first evaluation scheme. A first obtaining unit obtains a feedback indicating correct or incorrect regarding the searched image. A second obtaining unit obtains an evaluation of an effect of changing a similarity evaluation scheme to a second evaluation scheme from the first evaluation scheme in accordance with the feedback. A control unit controls, in accordance with the evaluation of the effect, a search of the plurality of search target images for the image relating to the query image based on a second similarity to the query image by the second evaluation scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
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Patent number: 10862377Abstract: In a grounding structure for a driving unit of a motor-driven vehicle, the grounding structure includes an coupling portion provided to an machine casing and being coupled to a mechanism casing; a coupling portion provided to the mechanism casing and being coupled to the coupling portion of the machine casing; a circumference wall that forms a space by arranging the coupling portion of the machine casing and the coupling portion of the mechanism casing so as to face each other between machine casing and the mechanism casing; a casing hole through which the space communicates with an inside of the mechanism casing; a pressure release hole that releases a pressure of the space by causing the space to communicate with an outside of the mechanism casing; and a grounding object that is disposed in the space and that grounds the rotating device.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
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Patent number: 10814713Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmit the power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on a drive wheel side and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes an input shaft (11) which is coaxially connected to a rotating shaft (2a) of the engine (2) and a switching mechanism (20A) which is interposed in at least the input shaft (11) and switches a high gear stage (11H, 15H) and a low gear stage (11L, 15L).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
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Patent number: 10807457Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmits power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on the side of a drive wheel from different power transmission paths and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes a connection/disconnection mechanism (20) which is interposed on a first power transmission path (51) from the first rotating electric machine (3) to the output shaft (12). The connection/disconnection mechanism (20) enables or disables the transmission of the power of the first rotating electric machine (3).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200317040Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmits power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on a drive wheel side and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes a casing (IC) which includes an attachment surface (1F) attached with the first and second rotating electric machines (3, 4), a counter shaft (15) which is disposed on a power transmission path between an output shaft (12) and an input shaft (11) coaxially connected to a rotating shaft (2a) of the engine (2) inside the casing (1C), and a switching mechanism (20A) which includes a planetary gear (30A) interposed in the counter shaft (15) and switches a high gear stage and a low gear stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 10762133Abstract: This invention prevents a collation database from becoming bulky and shortening the delay time needed from person detection to registration in the collation database. An information processing apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a video, a detecting unit which detects a whole body or a part of a person from at least one frame of the acquired video, a tracking unit which tracks the whole body or the part of the person detected, and a registering unit which registers, in a database, a feature amount extracted from the whole body or the part of the person tracked during a first period from a timing of a start of tracking of the whole body or the part of the person by the tracking unit to a timing before an end of the tracking by the tracking unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
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Patent number: 10755080Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes first and second acquisition units and first and second search units. The first acquisition unit acquires a first feature amount from a search source image including a search object. The first search unit searches for the search object from a plurality of video images based on the first feature amount acquired by the first acquisition unit. The second acquisition unit acquires a second feature amount from the search object searched by the first search unit. The second feature amount is different from the first feature amount. The second search unit searches, based on the second feature amount acquired by the second acquisition unit, the search object from a video image, among the plurality of video images, in which the search object is not searched by at least the first search unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
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Patent number: 10664523Abstract: A first retriever performs, based on a person feature of a person extracted from a video image before an acceptance time point of a retrieval instruction of a target person and stored and a feature extracted from the target person related to the retrieval instruction, a first retrieving process of retrieving the target person from the video image stored, a second retriever performs, based on a feature of a person extracted from a video image after the acceptance time point and the feature of the target person extracted from a query image of the retrieval instruction, a second retrieving process of retrieving the target person from the video image input after the acceptance time point, and the first retriever performs the first retrieving process to the video image input during a period from the acceptance time point to preparation completion of the second retrieving process and second retrieving process start.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
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Patent number: 10482109Abstract: One or more embodiments relate to an object indexing method, object indexing device and object indexing system. An object indexing method may include an initializing step of dividing at least one first data container and at least one second data container, and initializing respectively the first and the second data containers by using a first data indexer and a second data indexer; a first indexing step of adding the input feature vector of a specific object into a first data container currently being filled by using the first data indexer; and a second indexing step, when the data size in the first data container being filled has reached a threshold, selecting another first data container as the first data container currently being filled, and in the case of executing the first indexing step, converting bulk data in the first data container previously being filled into one available second data container.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Cheng Tan, Yaohai Huang, Rongjun Li, Sen Na, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190291563Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmit the power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on a drive wheel side and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes an input shaft (11) which is coaxially connected to a rotating shaft (2a) of the engine (2) and a switching mechanism (20A) which is interposed in at least the input shaft (11) and switches a high gear stage (11H, 15H) and a low gear stage (11L, 15L).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20190278804Abstract: This invention prevents a collation database from becoming bulky and shortening the delay time needed from person detection to registration in the collation database. An information processing apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a video, a detecting unit which detects a whole body or a part of a person from at least one frame of the acquired video, a tracking unit which tracks the whole body or the part of the person detected, and a registering unit which registers, in a database, a feature amount extracted from the whole body or the part of the person tracked during a first period from a timing of a start of tracking of the whole body or the part of the person by the tracking unit to a timing before an end of the tracking by the tracking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
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Publication number: 20190270373Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmits power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on the side of a drive wheel from different power transmission paths and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes a connection/disconnection mechanism (20) which is interposed on a first power transmission path (51) from the first rotating electric machine (3) to the output shaft (12). The connection/disconnection mechanism (20) enables or disables the transmission of the power of the first rotating electric machine (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 10353954Abstract: This invention prevents a collation database from becoming bulky and shortening the delay time needed from person detection to registration in the collation database. An information processing apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a video, a detecting unit which detects a whole body or a part of a person from at least one frame of the acquired video, a tracking unit which tracks the whole body or the part of the person detected, and a registering unit which registers, in a database, a feature amount extracted from the whole body or the part of the person tracked during a first period from a timing of a start of tracking of the whole body or the part of the person by the tracking unit to a timing before an end of the tracking by the tracking unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
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Patent number: 10339412Abstract: When searching for a registered image similar to a query image, an image processing apparatus estimates an area having a difference by comparing images determined to be similar if a plurality of similar images is found at the time of search of a similar image using an image feature amount in order to enhance search accuracy. Then, the image processing apparatus compares the query image with the plurality of images similar to the query image based on the difference area.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
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Publication number: 20190168601Abstract: A transaxle device (1) for a hybrid vehicle including an engine (2), a first rotating electric machine (3), and a second rotating electric machine (4) individually transmits power of the engine (2) and power of the first rotating electric machine (3) to an output shaft (12) on a drive wheel side and also transmits the power of the engine (2) to the second rotating electric machine (4). Further, the transaxle device (1) includes a differential gear (18) which is interposed in the output shaft (12) and a switching mechanism (20) which is interposed on a power transmission path from the engine (2) to the output shaft (12) and switches a high gear stage (11H, 15H) and a low gear stage (11L, 15L). The high gear stage (11H, 15H) is disposed on the opposite side to the differential gear (18) with respect to the low gear stage (11L, 15L) inside a casing (1C) of the transaxle device (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 10242287Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect at least one identical object or at least one object of an identical type from images captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select at least one object from among at least one detected object based on color information of each object, and a determination unit configured to determine color correction information related to a plurality of the imaging apparatuses based on color information of at least one selected object. The image processing apparatus enables restricting the degradation of the color matching accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado