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).

  • Patent number: 11959010
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Mitsui, Naotoshi Sato, Aya Nakayama, Takuto Matsushita, Masahiro Hatta, Hiroshi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11941045
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11841902
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220075821
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20210165818
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10862377
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10814713
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10807457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo Ogino, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20200317040
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10762133
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Patent number: 10755080
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Patent number: 10664523
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10482109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Cheng Tan, Yaohai Huang, Rongjun Li, Sen Na, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20190291563
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20190278804
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Publication number: 20190270373
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10353954
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Patent number: 10339412
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Publication number: 20190168601
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10242287
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado