Patents by Inventor Masayuki Shimizu

Masayuki Shimizu 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: 20240106972
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11919573
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a support member of a vehicle body, and a reinforcement member disposed along a longitudinal direction of the support member of the vehicle body to reinforce the support member of the vehicle body. The reinforcement member is a processed product formed by shaping a tubular body, and includes a flange portion that protrudes on an outer peripheral portion and that is formed in the longitudinal direction of the support member of the vehicle body. The flange portion is joined to the support member of the vehicle body at a location other than locations where the support member of the vehicle body is joined to other members different from the reinforcement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimizu, Masayuki Ishizuka, Takashi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11912989
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide target tissue-specific antigen-binding molecules, antigen-binding molecules whose antigen-binding activity varies depending on the concentration of an unnatural compound, libraries comprising a plurality of the antigen-binding molecules which are different from one another, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antigen-binding molecules, methods of screening for the antigen-binding molecules, and methods for producing the antigen-binding molecules. The present inventors created antigen-binding domains whose antigen-binding activity varies depending on the concentration of a small molecule compound or antigen-binding molecules containing an antigen-binding domain, and libraries comprising a plurality of the antigen-binding domains which are different from one another or antigen-binding domains, and demonstrated that the above-noted objective could be achieved by using the libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Igawa, Shigero Tamba, Shun Shimizu, Kanako Tatsumi, Shojiro Kadono, Hiroki Kawauchi, Kazuhiro Ohara, Masayuki Matsushita, Takashi Emura, Masaki Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20240037807
    Abstract: The image transmission system executes the following five steps. The first step is acquiring a first image by capturing a first person present in a first area by a first camera. The second step is generating a first person silhouette image representing a silhouette of the first person shown in the first image. The third step is projecting or displaying the first person silhouette image on a second object installed in a second area that is different from the first area. The fourth step is determining whether or not the first person performs a first trigger action based on the first image. Fifth step is when the first person performs the first trigger action, projecting or displaying a first person detailed image on the second object, wherein the first person detailed image is closer to a real image of the first person than the first person silhouette image is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU, Aiko SAWADO, Mina FUNAZUKURI, Masayuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240019342
    Abstract: This automobile collision simulation test bogie is equipped with a bogie chassis capable of moving along a rail, and a liquid tank provided to the bogie chassis, having a storage section for storing a test body placed on the bogie chassis, and capable of holding a liquid in said storage section in a state in which the test body is stored therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki SHIMIZU, Shinichiro NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11522590
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first antenna circuit that forms a beam selected from among a plurality of first beams through a beamforming process performed for communication using a millimeter wave band and a monitor that displays a first pattern indicating a radiation direction of the selected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naganori Shirakata, Masayuki Shimizu, Koji Takinami
  • Publication number: 20220326349
    Abstract: The present invention enables testing with high reproducibility under various conditions. This present invention is provided with: a testing platform on which a vehicle to be tested is mounted and which is capable of changing the orientation and the direction of the vehicle to be tested; an environment reproduction mechanism for reproducing the environment around the vehicle to be tested; a running condition reproduction mechanism that moves relatively to the vehicle to be tested and reproduces the running state of the vehicle; and a building that covers the testing platform, the running condition reproduction mechanism, and the environment reproduction mechanism, and that sets the surroundings of the testing platform as an indoor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kenji TONE, Mamoru JO, Shinichiro NISHIMURA, Masayuki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11260286
    Abstract: A computer device evaluates an input timing at which a player performed an operation input. The player holds a controller containing sensors for measuring acceleration and angular speed and performs a motion of shaking and stopping the controller. The computer device is communicably connected to the sensors. The computer device determines the input timing by detecting a peak of a measurement value that appears immediately before the stop of the motion. Then, the computer device performs the evaluation based on a difference between the determined input timing and a reference timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Enokido, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11253776
    Abstract: A computer device determines operation inputs one by one when a reference operation requesting successive inputs is presented. The computer device recognizes an inheritance condition is satisfied when a change in acceleration measured by an inertial sensor of a game controller appears at successive vertical movement of the controller. When recognizing that the inheritance condition is satisfied, the computer device can reduce a process load by limiting operation input determination to determination based on a change in acceleration. In addition, when recognizing that the inheritance condition is satisfied, the computer device can further reduce a process load by simplifying the process of type discrimination of the operation input through inheritance of the previous discrimination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Enokido, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11086690
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of reducing power consumption is provided. A semiconductor device having a processor executing a plurality of tasks while switching the tasks in synchronization with a supplied operational clock signal includes: a processor-use-rate measuring unit configured to measure a use rate of the processor during a first term; and a frequency-dividing-value selecting circuit and a frequency dividing circuit configured to change a frequency of the operational clock signal supplied to the processor during a second term later than the first term on the basis of the use rate measured by the processor-use-rate measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20210105052
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first antenna circuit that forms a beam selected from among a plurality of first beams through a beamforming process performed for communication using a millimeter wave band and a monitor that displays a first pattern indicating a radiation direction of the selected beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: NAGANORI SHIRAKATA, MASAYUKI SHIMIZU, KOJI TAKINAMI
  • Patent number: 10868598
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first antenna circuit that forms a beam selected from among a plurality of first beams through a beamforming process performed for communication using a millimeter wave band and a monitor that displays a first pattern indicating a radiation direction of the selected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naganori Shirakata, Masayuki Shimizu, Koji Takinami
  • Patent number: 10861337
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus activates a safety device for avoiding a collision of an own vehicle with a target or reducing damage caused by the collision. The vehicle control apparatus sets an activation condition for the safety device. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether each of a plurality of correction conditions for the activation condition is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether to activate the safety device on the basis of the activation condition. The vehicle control apparatus sets the activation condition by correcting a reference condition on the basis of a correction value for a satisfied correction condition, and correcting the corrected reference condition on the basis of a correction value (destination correction value) for each destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akitoshi Minemura, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10850730
    Abstract: A crossing determination apparatus includes: an object detection unit which detects an object moving in a direction perpendicular to a traveling path of an own vehicle; a crossing speed calculation unit which calculates a crossing speed that is a speed at which the object detected by the objection detection unit is crossing a current traveling path of the own vehicle; a crossing determination unit which, when the crossing speed calculated by the crossing speed calculation unit is higher than a predetermined speed, determines that the object is crossing the traveling path of the own vehicle; and a yaw rate detection unit which detects a yaw rate of the own vehicle. The crossing determination unit corrects the crossing speed of the object or the predetermined speed based on the yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Wataru Ike, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10831027
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit that displays an image thereon, an optical unit that projects a display image of the display unit on the eyes of a user, a correction information retaining unit that retains correction information created in advance according to a state of the user, and a distortion correction unit that corrects distortion of the display image based on correction information according to a current state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ikeda, Ken Tamayama, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200324194
    Abstract: A computer device determines operation inputs one by one when a reference operation requesting successive inputs is presented. The computer device recognizes an inheritance condition is satisfied when a change in acceleration measured by an inertial sensor of a game controller appears at successive vertical movement of the controller. When recognizing that the inheritance condition is satisfied, the computer device can reduce a process load by limiting operation input determination to determination based on a change in acceleration. In addition, when recognizing that the inheritance condition is satisfied, the computer device can further reduce a process load by simplifying the process of type discrimination of the operation input through inheritance of the previous discrimination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki Enokido, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200324195
    Abstract: A computer device evaluates an input timing at which a player performed an operation input. The player holds a controller containing sensors for measuring acceleration and angular speed and performs a motion of shaking and stopping the controller. The computer device is communicably connected to the sensors. The computer device determines the input timing by detecting a peak of a measurement value that appears immediately before the stop of the motion. Then, the computer device performs the evaluation based on a difference between the determined input timing and a reference timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki ENOKIDO, Masayuki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10731757
    Abstract: The controller performs shift control of the transmission such that an actual pressure of a primary pressure becomes an indicating pressure. The controller includes a phase advance compensator which performs advance compensation of the indicating pressure, and a setting unit which sets an indicating pressure on which the advance compensation is performed by the phase advance compensator as the indicating pressure, in accordance with at least one of a rotation speed of a primary pulley, an input torque to a secondary pulley, a speed ratio, or a changing rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takurou Kawasumi, Ken Okahara, Midori Yamaguchi, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroki Iwasa, Hiroki Kumashiro, Masayuki Shimizu, Ryuuichi Furukawa, Kenichi Mori, Kazutaka Adachi, Yutaka Kaneko, Hiroyuki Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 10688988
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided which includes position detecting means for detecting a position of a detected target using reflection information derived from a radar device 21, first determining means for determining whether the detected target is expected to be an obstacle not based on an intensity of a received reflected wave contained in the reflection information, and second determining means for determining whether an obstacle exists at the position, as detected by the position detecting means, or not using the image information. When the second determining means determines that the obstacle exists, and when a distance between an own vehicle and the detected target is smaller than a given threshold value, the detected target is determined as a target with which collision should be avoided regardless of a result of determination made by the first determining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Ito, Akitoshi Minemura, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10668919
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus acquires a lateral position which is a relative position of a target to the own vehicle, and determines that a first target is present, as the target, ahead of the own vehicle and that a second target is present between the first target and the own vehicle. The object detection apparatus determines, based on the lateral position of the first target and a limiting value which indicates a width in the lateral direction, whether the first target is present on a traveling course of the own vehicle. The object detection apparatus sets the limiting value such that when the second target is not present, sets as the limiting value, a predetermined reference value, and when the second target is present, sets as the limiting value, a value different from the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yosuke Ito, Jun Tsuchida, Masayuki Shimizu