Patents by Inventor Masahiro Morita

Masahiro Morita 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: 20190211163
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a rubber composition having sufficient reinforcement and fatigue resistance even when a large strain is applied thereto, and the present invention is to provide a substituted carboxy group-containing modified cellulose nanofiber wherein at least part thereof has at least any one of a substituent represented by Formula (a): —CONH—R1 and a substituent represented by Formula (b): —COO—R1 (in Formulae (a) and (b), R1 is independently a C3-30 hydrocarbon having at least one unsaturated bond), and a rubber composition including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro ITO, Shinichi ONOGI, Yusuke YASUKAWA, Masahiro MORITA
  • Publication number: 20190195718
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a pressure sensor that uses a pressure detection element, the pressure detection element using the piezoresistive effect or similar, wherein the pressure sensor reduces distortion of the pressure detection element due to temperature changes, and allows accuracy to be increased and temperature responsiveness to be improved. A pressure sensor (100) according to the present invention includes: a pressure detection element (126) that detects the pressure of a fluid; a support member (125) that supports the pressure detection element (126); and an adhesive layer (125A) that is formed by coating an adhesive agent, and adheres and fixes the pressure detection element (126) and the support member (125), the pressure sensor being characterized in that the adhesive layer (125A) is configured from two layers, an initial curing layer (125A1) and a chip mount curing layer (125A2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuya TAKIMOTO, Masahiro MORITA, Rihito SAKAI, Tatsuya TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10332076
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a schedule acquisition unit configured to acquire a schedule registered by a user, an action-history acquisition unit configured to acquire an action history of the user, and a past-schedule correction unit configured to correct a past schedule among the schedule on the basis of the action history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Morita, Atsushi Ishihara, Yoshinori Kurata, Hajime Senuma, Masayuki Takada, Yoshiki Takeoka, Shouichi Doi
  • Publication number: 20190181429
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a technique making it possible to improve suitably the performance of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell in which a SEI film is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell disclosed herein includes a positive electrode 10, a negative electrode 20, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein a negative electrode SEI film 29 including at least a LiBOB skeleton and a fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material 28, and a positive electrode SEI film 19 including at least a phosphoric acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a positive electrode active material 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta ISHII, Masahiro MORITA, Shusaku GOTO
  • Publication number: 20190181455
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a technique making it possible to improve suitably the performance of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell in which a SEI film is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell disclosed herein includes a positive electrode 10, a negative electrode 20, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein a negative electrode SEI film 29 including at least a LiBOB skeleton and a fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a negative electrode active material 28, and a positive electrode SEI film 19 including at least a phosphoric acid skeleton is formed on the surface of a positive electrode active material 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta ISHII, Masahiro MORITA, Risa SATO, Ryo HANASAKI, Yusuke ONODA, Koji TAKAHATA, Atsushi WATARAI
  • Patent number: 10297179
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of projecting an image to an appropriate projection destination while reducing work of a user in projection of an image, the information processing apparatus including: a 3-dimensional information acquisition unit configured to acquire 3-dimensional information indicating disposition of an object; and a projection control unit configured to decide a projection region to which an image is projected in a space in which the object is disposed on the basis of the 3-dimensional information acquired by the 3-dimensional information acquisition unit, an information processing method, and a program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouichi Doi, Masayuki Chatani, Atsushi Ishihara, Yoshinori Kurata, Masayuki Takada, Masahiro Morita, Yoshiki Takeoka
  • Patent number: 10255904
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a reading-aloud information editing device includes an acquirer, an analyzer, a first generator, a second generator, and an extractor. The acquirer is configured to acquire an edit region including a text added with reading-aloud information from a document. The analyzer is configured to analyze a document structure of the edit region. The first generator is configured to generate one or more condition patterns by abstracting the edit region on the basis of the document structure. The second generator is configured to generate an extraction condition that is for extracting a text from the document and includes at least one of the condition patterns. The extractor is configured to extract a text suitable for the extraction condition from the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kosei Fume, Masahiro Morita, Taira Ashikawa
  • Patent number: 10256034
    Abstract: A core case unit (100) includes: an annular case (1) which houses a magnetic core (4); and a bobbin (2) around which a wire is to be wound, wherein the bobbin (2) includes a cylindrical portion (5) around which the wire is to be wound, inner flanges (6) provided at opposite ends of the cylindrical portion, outer flanges (7) provided on an outer side of the inner flanges with a space being left which is capable of containing a wire end portion, and a gear portion (8) provided on an outer side of at least one of the outer flanges for receiving rotational force, the bobbin being rotatably supported on the case at the cylindrical portion, an outside diameter of the outer flanges (7) is greater than an outside diameter of the gear portion which is defined by an addendum circle, and the inner flanges (6) and the outer flanges (7) have a recessed portion (15, 16) through which a wire end portion is to be passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohiko Miki, Takayuki Morikawa, Masatoshi Akita, Masahiro Morita
  • Publication number: 20190066656
    Abstract: A speech synthesis dictionary delivery device that delivers a dictionary for performing speech synthesis to terminals, comprises a storage device for speech synthesis dictionary database that stores a first dictionary which includes an acoustic model of a speaker and is associated with identification information of the speaker, that stores a second dictionary which includes an acoustic model generated using voice data of a plurality of speakers, and that stores parameter sets of the speakers to be used with the second dictionary and which are associated with identification information of the speakers, a processor that determines one of the first dictionary and the second dictionary, which should be used in the terminal for a specified speaker, and an input output interface (I/F) that receives the identification information of a speaker transmitted from the terminal and then delivers at least one of a first dictionary, the second dictionary, and a parameter set of the second dictionary, on the basis of the rec
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou MORI, Gou HIRABAYASHI, Masahiro MORITA, Yamato OHTANI
  • Patent number: 10157608
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice processing device includes an interface system, a determining processor, and a predicting processor. The interface system configured to receive neutral voice data representing audio in a neutral voice of a user. The determining processor configured to determine a predictive parameter based at least in part on the neutral voice data. The predicting processor configured to predict a voice conversion model for converting the neutral voice of the speaker to a target voice using at least the predictive parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita
  • Publication number: 20180326590
    Abstract: In order to respond flexibly to various processing modes, such as forming curved surface shapes, when cutting a workpiece using a wire saw, this wire saw device (1) is provided with: a single robot arm (2) that is capable of moving freely by means of multi-axis control; a wire saw unit (3) that is detachably connected to the robot arm (2) via a tool changer (7); a wire (8) that spans a plurality of pulleys supported within the wire saw unit (3); and a workpiece cutting zone (20) that is established between the pulleys. The workpiece is cut to a prescribed shape by moving the robot arm (2) in a preset direction while running the wire (8) of the wire saw unit (3) and pressing the wire (8) against the supported workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto MASUDA, Hiroyuki KITA, Masahiro MORITA, Tatsuya KOMEDA, Takaaki YOSHIMURA, Hisashi YOSHIDA, Atsunori TAKEDA, Yuichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 10121124
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a request transmitting portion that transmits a request, a response receiving portion that receives a response corresponding to the request, a response analyzing portion that analyzes the response, a text output portion that outputs, to the user, text generated based on the response analysis result, a request generating portion that newly generates the request based on the response analysis result or text input by the user, and a timing control portion that controls a timing at which the request is newly generated based on a timing at which the generated text is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takeoka, Atsushi Ishihara, Yoshinori Kurata, Hajime Senuma, Masayuki Takada, Shouichi Doi, Masahiro Morita
  • Patent number: 10109286
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a speech synthesizer includes a source generator, a phase modulator, and a vocal tract filter unit. The source generator generates a source signal by using a fundamental frequency sequence and a pulse signal. The phase modulator modulates, with respect to the source signal generated by the source generator, a phase of the pulse signal at each pitch mark based on audio watermarking information. The vocal tract filter unit generates a speech signal by using a spectrum parameter sequence with respect to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated by the phase modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro Tachibana, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita
  • Patent number: 10089975
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transliteration work support apparatus include an input unit, an extraction unit, a presentation unit, a reception unit, and a correction unit. The input unit receives document information. The extraction unit extracts, as a correction part, a surface expression of the document information that matches a correction pattern expressing a plurality of surface expressions having the same regularity in way of correction in one form. The presentation unit presents a way of correction defined in accordance with the correction pattern used in the extraction of the correction part. The reception unit receives selection of the way of correction. The correction unit corrects the correction part based on the selected way of correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kosei Fume, Masahiro Morita, Yuka Kuroda, Yoshiaki Mizuoka
  • Publication number: 20180241029
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery of the present invention has a positive electrode is provided with a positive electrode mix layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a conductive material. The positive electrode mix layer has two peaks, large and small, of differential pore volume over a pore size ranging from 0.01 ?m to 10 ?m in a pore distribution curve measured by a mercury porosimeter. A pore size of the smaller peak B of the differential pore volume is smaller than a pore size of the larger peak A of the differential pore volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagai, Masahiro Morita, Yukihiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20180174570
    Abstract: A speech synthesis device of an embodiment includes a memory unit, a creating unit, a deciding unit, a generating unit and a waveform generating unit. The memory unit stores, as statistical model information of a statistical model, an output distribution of acoustic feature parameters including pitch feature parameters and a duration distribution. The creating unit creates a statistical model sequence from context information and the statistical model information. The deciding unit decides a pitch-cycle waveform count of each state using a duration based on the duration distribution of each state of each statistical model in the statistical model sequence, and pitch information based on the output distribution of the pitch feature parameters. The generating unit generates an output distribution sequence based on the pitch-cycle waveform count, and acoustic feature parameters based on the output distribution sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masatsune TAMURA, Masahiro MORITA
  • Publication number: 20180174571
    Abstract: A speech processing device of an embodiment includes a spectrum parameter calculation unit, a phase spectrum calculation unit, a group delay spectrum calculation unit, a band group delay parameter calculation unit, and a band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit. The spectrum parameter calculation unit calculates a spectrum parameter. The phase spectrum calculation unit calculates a first phase spectrum. The group delay spectrum calculation unit calculates a group delay spectrum from the first phase spectrum based on a frequency component of the first phase spectrum. The band group delay parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay parameter in a predetermined frequency band from a group delay spectrum. The band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay compensation parameter to compensate a difference between a second phase spectrum reconstructed from the band group delay parameter and the first phase spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masatsune TAMURA, Masahiro MORITA
  • Patent number: 9997743
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with superior high-temperature charge-discharge cycle characteristics as well as superior low-temperature high-rate charge-discharge cycle characteristics. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 100 according to the present invention has an electrode body 80 which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a battery case 50 which houses the electrode body 80 together with a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein among the nonaqueous electrolyte housed in the battery case 50, an electrolyte amount ratio (A/B) between a surplus electrolyte amount (A) that exists outside the electrode body 80 and an intra-electrode body electrolyte amount (B) impregnating the electrode body 80 ranges from 0.05 to 0.2, and DBP absorption of a positive electrode active material that constitutes the positive electrode is equal to or higher than 30 (ml/100 g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagai, Masahiro Morita, Takashi Iwao, Yukihiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9928828
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transliteration work support device includes an analysis unit, a storage unit, an estimation unit, a construction unit, a correction unit, and an update unit. The analysis unit performs language analysis on document data and creates transliteration auxiliary information representing a way of transliteration of a word or a phrase in the document data. The storage unit stores a correction history representing a way of transliteration corrected in the past of the word or the phrase. The estimation unit estimates a correction place and a correction candidate of the document data or the transliteration auxiliary information from the history. The construction unit constructs work list information including work items corresponding to types of corrections according to the correction candidate and progress information. The correction unit corrects the document data or the transliteration auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kosei Fume, Yuka Kuroda, Yoshiaki Mizuoka, Masahiro Morita
  • Patent number: 9905219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech synthesis apparatus is provided with generation, normalization, interpolation and synthesis units. The generation unit generates a first parameter using a prosodic control dictionary of a target speaker and one or more second parameters using a prosodic control dictionary of one or more standard speakers based on language information for an input text. The normalization unit normalizes the one or more second parameters based a normalization parameter. The interpolation unit interpolates the first parameter and the one or more normalized second parameters based on weight information to generate a third parameter and the synthesis unit generates synthesized speech using the third parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tachibana, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita