Patents by Inventor Masaki Ishii

Masaki Ishii 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: 12078401
    Abstract: A turbo-Brayton refrigeration machine (11) includes a first circulation path (L1) in which a first refrigerant circulates, a second circulation path (L2) in which a second refrigerant which is a cooling target circulates, a subcooler (22) disposed over the first circulation path (L1) and the second circulation path (L2) and configured to have a single heat-exchanging unit, and an expansion turbine (21) positioned on a primary side of the subcooler (22) in the first circulation path (L1), in which the pressure ratio of the expansion turbine (21) is the pressure ratio at which the outlet temperature of the expansion turbine (21) is higher than a freezing point of the second refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Ozaki, Hirokazu Hirai, Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240179285
    Abstract: A processing device acquires a moving image that includes frames in each of which a first image for display to a right eye of a user, and a second image for display to a left eye of the user. The processing device determines a likelihood of the user experiencing a particular symptom due to viewing the moving image, on a basis of information of contents of the moving image, information of the user, and characteristics of the moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: MASAKI ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240085066
    Abstract: A turbo-Brayton refrigeration machine (11) includes a first circulation path (L1) in which a first refrigerant circulates, a second circulation path (L2) in which a second refrigerant which is a cooling target circulates, a subcooler (22) disposed over the first circulation path (L1) and the second circulation path (L2) and configured to have a single heat-exchanging unit, and an expansion turbine (21) positioned on a primary side of the subcooler (22) in the first circulation path (L1), in which the pressure ratio of the expansion turbine (21) is the pressure ratio at which the outlet temperature of the expansion turbine (21) is higher than a freezing point of the second refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shinsuke OZAKI, Hirokazu HIRAI, Masaki ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230415293
    Abstract: A method of forming a truer in a truing where a groove of a grinding wheel used for grinding a chamfer portion of a wafer is formed by a truer having a disc-shape, wherein the method comprising: a process A for adjusting a diameter and a rough shape of the truer by a master grinding wheel for forming the truer; and a process B for forming an edge of the truer into a target shape, wherein the process A and the process B are performed by a plurality of master grooves having different shapes from each other, the plurality of master grooves being provided with the master grinding wheel or the process A and the process B are performed by a plurality of portions having different shapes from each other in at least one of the plurality of master grooves provided with the master grinding wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi KISHISHITA, Masaki ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230179875
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor, at least one processor; and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform to acquire lens information related to a lens apparatus, acquire array information related to an optical apparatus, acquire aberration correction information based on the lens information and the array information, cut out a plurality of images in a tile form from an image signal output by the sensor picking up a light beam incident from an object through a filter of the optical apparatus, and correct an aberration in the plurality of images, based on the aberration correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20230179873
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor, at least one processor; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory having instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform to acquire array information about an optical apparatus including a filter that includes a plurality of areas to disperse a light beam from an object into a plurality of spectral components, cut out a plurality of images in a tile form from an image signal output by the sensor picking out a light beam incident from the object through the filter of the optical apparatus, and correct brightness of the plurality of images based on the array information, wherein the plurality of images each corresponds to a different area among the plurality of areas of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20220382228
    Abstract: Provided is a prediction apparatus including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire setting value data indicating a setting value of a controlled object and physical quantity data indicating a physical quantity of a product obtained by controlling the controlled object; a prediction unit configured to calculate, using the setting value data and the physical quantity data, a plurality of prediction values obtained by predicting a plurality of physical quantities in the product on a basis of a setting value used for control of the controlled object; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the plurality of prediction values on a basis of a predefined reference; and an output unit configured to output a setting value recommended according to a result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki ISHII, Makoto ENDO, Makoto MIYAO, Rei KARASAWA, Go TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220351101
    Abstract: Provided is an evaluation apparatus comprising: an environmental data acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental data indicating an operation environment of equipment; a performance data acquisition unit configured to acquire performance data indicating an operation performance of the equipment; an estimation unit configured to estimate an operation performance on an operation basis in a learning target period under an operation environment in an evaluation target period, based on the environmental data and the performance data in the learning target period; an evaluation unit configured to calculate an indicator that relatively evaluates an actually measured value of an operation performance in the evaluation target period with respect to an estimated value of the estimated operation performance; and an output unit configured to output the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Rei KARASAWA, Makoto ENDO, Nobuyuki MORIOKA, Go TAKAMI, Masaki ISHII
  • Patent number: 11436716
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select any one of a plurality of parameters generated in advance, and an analysis unit configured to receive light reflected from food to be analyzed and perform an analysis of spectral data by using the parameter selected by the selection unit, the spectral data indicating spectral intensities of a plurality of spectral components, wherein the selection unit is configured to select any one of the plurality of parameters based on at least any one of a type of the food to be analyzed, a demanded accuracy of the analysis, and processing to be performed after the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruo Hieda, Masaki Ishii, Toshimasa Suzuki, Junko Tajima
  • Patent number: 11244272
    Abstract: A patrol check system according to one aspect of the present invention includes at least one data collection device installed in a first position in an area in which facilities are installed, the data collection device being configured to collects measured values indicating a state of at least one facility installed in a first range around the first position, the facility belonging to a check target of the data collection device, the measured values being measured by a measurement device installed in the facility, and a patrol check device configured to acquire the measured values collected by the data collection device, and reflect the acquired measured values in a check result of a check record in which check items to be performed on the facility belonging to the check target of the data collection device are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Gotou, Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20200334806
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select any one of a plurality of parameters generated in advance, and an analysis unit configured to receive light reflected from food to be analyzed and perform an analysis of spectral data by using the parameter selected by the selection unit, the spectral data indicating spectral intensities of a plurality of spectral components, wherein the selection unit is configured to select any one of the plurality of parameters based on at least any one of a type of the food to be analyzed, a demanded accuracy of the analysis, and processing to be performed after the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Teruo Hieda, Masaki Ishii, Toshimasa Suzuki, Junko Tajima
  • Patent number: 9996770
    Abstract: A model containing a plurality of model edges is acquired, and a position that matches the model is searched for within a search image. Within the search image, a plurality of edge extraction regions including the respective plurality of model edges when the model is moved to the position searched for are set, and an arithmetic operation of extracting an edge in each of the plurality of edge extraction regions is performed. If there is an edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted, of the model moved to the position searched for, a model edge located in the edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted is incorporated into an edge set, and fitting is performed to the edge set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20180129193
    Abstract: A patrol check system according to one aspect of the present invention includes at least one data collection device installed in a first position in an area in which facilities are installed, the data collection device being configured to collects measured values indicating a state of at least one facility installed in a first range around the first position, the facility belonging to a check target of the data collection device, the measured values being measured by a measurement device installed in the facility, and a patrol check device configured to acquire the measured values collected by the data collection device, and reflect the acquired measured values in a check result of a check record in which check items to be performed on the facility belonging to the check target of the data collection device are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsugu GOTOU, Masaki ISHII
  • Patent number: 9785864
    Abstract: To improve a search accuracy in template matching based on a coarse-to-fine search method, a first pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of template images having different resolutions from each other in order of the resolution, a second pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of search target images having different resolutions from each other corresponding to the same resolutions as the template images in the first pyramid in order of the resolution, and a search process of searching for a feature image included in the template image of the first pyramid from the search target image in the second pyramid in a hierarchy of the same resolution. When the first pyramid is generated, the number of stages of the first pyramid is set such that a size of the feature image included in each of the template images is not smaller than a previously set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20170131705
    Abstract: A field device for measuring information associated with each of equipments installed in a plant includes: a measurer configured to measure running condition of the equipment, and to output measurement information representing result of the measurement; a diagnoser configured to diagnose the running condition of the equipment represented by the measurement information in accordance with predetermined first diagnosis rule, to diagnose result diagnosed in accordance with the first diagnosis rule in accordance with predetermined second diagnosis rule, and to output diagnosis result information representing result diagnosed in accordance with the second diagnosis rule as result of diagnosing the running condition of the equipment; wherein the second diagnosis rule is configured to be set condition for confirming influence of an external factor to the running condition of the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki ISHII, Ryuta MOTOOKA, Ryouhei FURIHATA, Yoshio UOMORI
  • Publication number: 20170032513
    Abstract: A model containing a plurality of model edges is acquired, and a position that matches the model is searched for within a search image. Within the search image, a plurality of edge extraction regions including the respective plurality of model edges when the model is moved to the position searched for are set, and an arithmetic operation of extracting an edge in each of the plurality of edge extraction regions is performed. If there is an edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted, of the model moved to the position searched for, a model edge located in the edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted is incorporated into an edge set, and fitting is performed to the edge set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9409480
    Abstract: A display apparatus provided on a surface of a panel, the display apparatus includes a quadrangular window section provided in the surface, an image display surface disposed in and recessed from the quadrangular window section, a frame configured to surround the image display surface and extend from the image display surface to the quadrangular window section, in which the frame includes an inside edge formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape having a shorter upper edge and a longer lower edge, and an outside edge formed in a quadrangular shape conforming to the quadrangular window section, in which a difference in length in a lateral direction between the shorter edge of the inside edge and an upper edge of the outside edge is set larger than a difference in length in the lateral direction between the longer edge of the inside edge and a lower edge of the outside edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishii, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Takefuji
  • Patent number: 9369627
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes an image capturing apparatus and a processing apparatus connected to the image capturing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit that obtains a frame image; a frame image transmitting unit that transmits the frame image to the processing apparatus; a transformation parameter setting unit that sets transformation parameters received from the processing apparatus in the image capturing apparatus; an image transforming unit that applies an image transformation to the frame image using the transformation parameters thus set; and a transformed frame image transmitting unit that transmits a transformed frame image to the processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishii, Kenji Namie
  • Publication number: 20160012312
    Abstract: To improve a search accuracy in template matching based on a coarse-to-fine search method, a first pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of template images having different resolutions from each other in order of the resolution, a second pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of search target images having different resolutions from each other corresponding to the same resolutions as the template images in the first pyramid in order of the resolution, and a search process of searching for a feature image included in the template image of the first pyramid from the search target image in the second pyramid in a hierarchy of the same resolution. When the first pyramid is generated, the number of stages of the first pyramid is set such that a size of the feature image included in each of the template images is not smaller than a previously set threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventor: Masaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9042675
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an image; an information acquiring unit that acquires image information indicative of a content of the image; and a correcting unit that corrects the image based on the image information such that some of warping of the image is left. The horizontal direction component of the warping may be completely or nearly completely eliminated while a predetermined portion of a vertical direction component of the warping is left, when the image information indicates the content of the image is a person. Alternatively, there is an analyzer which generates the image information indicating that the content of the image is a erson when the analyzing determines that the image contains two or more persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishii, Akira Kinoshita, Takahiro Imai, Kenji Namie