Patents by Inventor Masashi Sugiyama

Masashi Sugiyama 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: 20170177924
    Abstract: This invention relates to an attribute factor analysis method, which is a method of analyzing a factor of an attribute based on a training sample set including training samples each being a combination of reference image data and attribute data associated with the reference image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki IHARA, Masashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9676115
    Abstract: To provide an operation lever including a first lever that has a base end portion swingably supported to a peripheral portion of a nut member for fastening a guide bar in a chain saw, and a second lever that is engaged with the first lever in a manner slidable in an axial direction. The operation lever can be placed in a receiving portion of the nut member with an axial length thereof shortened, and can be manipulated to rotate the nut member by being gripped on an outer end portion of the second lever in a state in which the operation lever is lifted out from the receiving portion and the axial length is lengthened. Thus, a sufficient fastening force for the guide bar can be obtained, and operability can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takayanagi, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20170145137
    Abstract: Provided is a photocurable resin composition that has a low viscosity and is capable of yielding a high refractive index. Specifically, a urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) obtained by a reaction of an aromatic diisocyanate compound (a), a polyol compound (b), and a hydroxyl-group-containing (meth)acrylate compound (c) as essential raw material components is used. The urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) contains a structural moiety (a-1) represented by structural formula (1) below: (where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group) and a structural moiety (a-2) represented by structural formula (2) below: (where R1, R2, R3, X1, and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group) at a (a-1)/(a-2) molar ratio of 45/55 to 60/40. The polyol compound (b) has an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamada, Takeshi Ibe, Nobuo Kobayashi, Yasuko Odani, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20170109567
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of analyzing a factor of an attribute based on a case sample set containing combinations of image data and attribute data associated with the image data. The attribute factor analysis method includes: a division step of dividing an image region of the image data forming each element of the case sample set into parts in a mesh shape of a predetermined sample size; a reconstruction step of reconstructing, based on the case sample set, the case sample sets for the respective parts to obtain reconstructed case sample sets; an analysis step of analyzing, for each of the reconstructed case sample sets, a dependency between an explanatory variable representing a feature value of image data on each part and an objective variable representing the attribute data, to thereby obtain an attribute factor analysis result; and a visualization step of visualizing the attribute factor analysis result to produce the visualized attribute factor analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki IHARA, Masashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9573208
    Abstract: A portable working machine includes a working machine body, bolt members erected on the working machine body, a cover member configured to be attachable to and detachable from the working machine body, in which the cover member has through-holes through which the bolt members are inserted when attaching the cover member, fixing members configured to be fastened to the bolt members to fix the cover member attached to the working machine body, and a holding member attached to an outer surface of the cover member with a predetermined gap space between the holding member and the outer surface of the cover member, in which the holding member is configured to retain the fixing members on an outer side of the outer surface of the cover member when a fastening of the fixing members to the bolt members is released to prevent the fixing members from dropping off the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takayanagi, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20160161960
    Abstract: Acquiring correspondence among a plurality of time zones and target upper limit temperatures and target lower limit temperatures of the air conditioner that correspond to the respective plurality of time zones. A display allows a user to set the preset temperatures of the air conditioner in the respective plurality of time zones. The display includes a graph region having a first axis corresponding to the plurality of time zones and a second axis corresponding to the preset temperatures of the air conditioner. The graph region includes, in each of the plurality of time zones, a first temperature region having a first appearance and a second temperature region displayed having a second appearance. A symbol indicative of a corresponding preset temperature is displayed in the first temperature region in a corresponding one of the plurality of time zones in the graph region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: KAZUSHIGE YAMADA, TAIJI SASAKI, MASASHI SUGIYAMA, YOICHI NISHIDA, TETSUJI FUCHIKAMI, SHUNJI HARADA
  • Patent number: 9336486
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attribute value estimation device capable of yielding highly accurate estimation results even when people from multiple races are estimation targets. The attribute value estimation device for estimating, from data input thereto, an attribute value of the data includes: a data acquisition unit (1) that acquires data for which an attribute value is to be estimated; a discrete quantity estimation unit (2) that estimates the attribute value as a discrete quantity based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit (1) and in accordance with a previously learned determination criterion; a first LSPC (3) that estimates the attribute value as a discrete quantity based on data input from the discrete quantity estimation unit (2); and an integration unit (4) that integrates a first discrete quantity estimation value estimated by the discrete quantity estimation unit (2) and a second discrete quantity estimation value estimated by the first LSPC (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kazuya Ueki, Yasuyuki Ihara, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20150284556
    Abstract: There are provided a photocurable molding resin composition that exhibits a high adhesion to a variety of transparent resin substrates when formed into a resin layer on the transparent resin substrate, and a molded multilayer article having high adhesion between the resin layer and the transparent substrate. The composition contains a photopolymerizable substance (A) having a (meth)acryloyl group in the molecule thereof, a hydrogen abstraction type photopolymerization initiator (B), an intramolecular cleavage type photopolymerization initiator (C), and a silicone compound (D). The proportion of the silicone compound (D) is 1.0 to 5.0 parts by mass to the total mass of the composition that is 100 parts by mass of the constituents (A) to (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Nobuo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150277611
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi SUGIYAMA, Takayuki NISHIKAWA, Yoichi NISHIDA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Toyoharu KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150277612
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device that is used for a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, includes a sound data acquirer that acquires sound data of a surrounding sound of the touch panel; a predominant frequency acquirer that extracts a predominant frequency of the surrounding sound from the acquired sound data; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the extracted predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the extracted predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: MASASHI SUGIYAMA, TAKAYUKI NISHIKAWA, YOICHI NISHIDA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9069589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a virtual machine system that includes a plurality of processors and executes a plurality of virtual machines in parallel with use of the plurality of processors. An aim thereof is to suppress power consumption without sacrificing the performance of the virtual machine system. When there are at least two processors that do not have any virtual machines allocated thereto, one of the at least two processors is supplied with power so as to be placed in a standby state, and a remaining one or more of the at least two processors are not supplied with power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masahiko Saito, Ryota Miyazaki, Tadao Tanikawa, Katsushige Amano, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9036923
    Abstract: Provided are an age estimation apparatus, an age estimation method, and an age estimation program capable of obtaining a recognition result closely matching the result perceived by human. An age estimation apparatus 10 for estimating an age of a person on image data includes a dimension compressor 11 for applying dimension compression to the image data to output low dimensional data; and an identification device 12 for estimating an age of a person on the basis of a learning result using a feature amount contained in the low dimensional data, wherein a parameter used for the dimension compression by the dimension compressor 11 and the feature amount used for age estimation by the identification device 12 are set on the basis of a result of an evaluation of a generalization capability using a weighting function that shows a degree of seriousness of an age estimation error for every age, and learning of the identification device 12 is performed on the basis of the weighting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara
  • Publication number: 20150112489
    Abstract: There is provided a control method for an information terminal device having a display and controlling an air conditioner over a network. The control method makes the information terminal device perform processing including: displaying a temperature setting screen where an air conditioner temperature is settable for each of a plurality of time periods; calculating a first time period preset temperature using a first preset temperature at a boundary time and a second preset temperature at a go-to-bed time; calculating a second time period preset temperature using the first preset temperature and a third preset temperature at a wake-up time; displaying the first time period preset temperature and second time period preset temperature; and outputting to the network a control command corresponding to the first preset temperature and second preset temperature when the first time period preset temperature and second time period preset temperature have been fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: MASASHI SUGIYAMA, TAIJI SASAKI, YOICHI NISHIDA, SHUNJI HARADA, TETSUJI FUCHIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150105917
    Abstract: An air-conditioning setting screen has a coordinate space defined by a Y-axis along which temperature items are indicated in increments of one degree and an X-axis along which time-point items are indicated in increments of one hour. Operation points PT corresponding to the time-point items are arranged in the coordinate space. The air-conditioning setting screen displays time-series changes in a previous day's body-movement values such that the density of a background color is higher for times at which the body-movement value is larger and the density of a background color is lower for times at which the body-movement value is smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: TAIJI SASAKI, YOICHI NISHIDA, TETSUJI FUCHIKAMI, SHUNJI HARADA, MASASHI SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8918664
    Abstract: An integrated circuit provided with a processor includes a loop detection unit that detects execution of a loop in the processor, a loop-carried dependence analysis unit that analyzes the loop in order to detect loop-carried dependence, and a power control unit that performs power saving control when no loop-carried dependence is detected. By detecting whether a loop has loop-carried dependence, loops for calculation or the like can be excluded from power saving control. As a result, a larger variety of busy-waits can be detected, and the amount of power wasted by a busy-wait can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Masahiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20140290076
    Abstract: In a chain saw, an operating shaft member axially rotated by a manual operation of a rotating lever is disposed so that an axial direction thereof may be inclined against an attaching surface of a guide bar in which a saw chain is wound around a circumference thereof, a driving bevel gear attached to an end portion of the operating shaft member meshes with a driven bevel gear attached to an end portion of a rotating shaft member, and the rotating shaft member is axially rotated. Thus, the guide bar is moved in a longitudinal direction thereof to adjust tension of the saw chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKAYANAGI, Masashi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140290075
    Abstract: To provide an operation lever including a first lever that has a base end portion swingably supported to a peripheral portion of a nut member for fastening a guide bar in a chain saw, and a second lever that is engaged with the first lever in a manner slidable in an axial direction. The operation lever can be placed in a receiving portion of the nut member with an axial length thereof shortened, and can be manipulated to rotate the nut member by being gripped on an outer end portion of the second lever in a state in which the operation lever is lifted out from the receiving portion and the axial length is lengthened. Thus, a sufficient fastening force for the guide bar can be obtained, and operability can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKAYANAGI, Masashi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140290074
    Abstract: A portable working machine according to the present invention has a cover member detachably attached to a working machine body, includes a bolt member vertically provided to a working machine body, a detachable cover member having a through-hole and attached to the working machine body by inserting the bolt member through the through hole, a fixing member which is screwed with the bolt member and fixes the cover member to the working machine body, and a holding member which is attached to an outer surface of the cover member while having a predetermined gap space between the holding member and the outer surface of the cover member and holds the fixing member on an outer side of the cover member to prevent drop of the fixing member of which fastening to the bolt member is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKAYANAGI, Masashi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140255714
    Abstract: To provide an active-energy-ray-curable resin composition that exhibits high bonding strength even to plastic films that are difficult to bond such as untreated PET films, fluorine-based films, and polycarbonate films, which are referred to as difficult-to-bond films, and that can maintain the bonding strength even under wet heat conditions; an adhesive including the resin composition; and a laminate film obtained by using the adhesive. The essential components contained are a (meth)acrylate compound (A), a polyester resin (B), and a polymerization initiator (D), the (meth)acrylate compound (A) having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) in a range of 5,000 to 30,000 and including, in a molecular structure, a (meth)acryloyl group and a polyester moiety, and the polyester resin (B) having an acid value in a range of 40 to 90 mgKOH/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Ikue Hamamoto, Naoto Inoue, Daisuke Nakazawa, Takeshi Ibe
  • Patent number: 8818111
    Abstract: Provided are an age estimation apparatus, an age estimation method, and an age estimation program capable of reducing the labor of labeling the image data used for age estimation. An age estimation apparatus for estimating an age of a person on image data includes a dimension compression unit for applying dimension compression to the image data to output low dimensional data; a clustering unit for performing clustering of the low dimensional data outputted; a labeling unit for labeling representative data of each cluster among the low dimensional data clustered; and an identification unit for estimating an age of a person on the basis of a learning result using a feature amount contained in labeled low dimensional data and unlabeled low dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: NEC Soft, Ltd., Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara