Patents by Inventor Motoaki Shimizu

Motoaki 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: 20200378927
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible for sounding of an inspection location on an outer wall of a building or the like to be performed using a simple operation. A user interface device accepts an input for designating an inspection location. The mobile robot device flies autonomously and moves to the inspection location, on the basis of the input into the user interface device and the current location of the mobile robot device. The mobile robot device inspects the inspection location using an inspection means such as a sounding means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro NISHIZAWA, Toshiaki YAMASHITA, Namiki HASHIMOTO, Hideo ADACHI, Hiroshi MUROFUSHI, Motoaki SHIMIZU, Akira KOYASHIKI, Kenzo NONAMI, Daisuke IWAKURA, Tytus WOJTARA, Kohji INAGAKI, Naotaka SHIKIDA, Satoshi AOKI
  • Patent number: 10073472
    Abstract: Provided is a spatial stabilization apparatus that realizes high spatial stability with a single inertial sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9278766
    Abstract: A trajectory generation device includes a control target (1), an angle detector (2), a command generator (5) and a trajectory generator (6). If a change is generated from a current target angle to a new target angle or if a change is generated from the current target angular velocity to a new target angular velocity in the command generator (5), a changed trajectory is regenerated by the trajectory generator (6) based on the angle up to the new target angle or the angular velocity up to the new target angular velocity, on the basis of the output angular velocity generated by the trajectory generator (6) at the point the change has occurred and on the basis of a current angle at the point the change has occurred or an output angle generated by the trajectory generator (6) at the point the change has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20160004262
    Abstract: Provided is a spatial stabilization apparatus that realizes high spatial stability with a single inertial sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Motoaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20150205273
    Abstract: A cooperative control device is provided in which position information on a node (1) of the device and a facing node (2) are acquired by a device node position information acquisition unit (8) and a facing node position information acquisition unit (14). The position information is used to calculate a position-information-based target angle of a first orientation means (3) by a position-information-based orientation angle generator (15). The position-information-based target angle is converted, by applying kinematics, to a kinematics-used target angle of the first orientation means by the converter (16). Subsequently, the position-information-based target angle of the first orientation means (3) is subtracted from the kinematics-used target angle to obtain a target error angle, and the target error angle is then integrated by an integrator (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Motoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20150197351
    Abstract: A trajectory generation device includes a control target (1), an angle detector (2), a command generator (5) and a trajectory generator (6). If a change is generated from a current target angle to a new target angle or if a change is generated from the current target angular velocity to a new target angular velocity in the command generator (5), a changed trajectory is regenerated by the trajectory generator (6) based on the angle up to the new target angle or the angular velocity up to the new target angular velocity, on the basis of the output angular velocity generated by the trajectory generator (6) at the point the change has occurred and on the basis of a current angle at the point the change has occurred or an output angle generated by the trajectory generator (6) at the point the change has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventor: Motoaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8531514
    Abstract: A terminal has a visual axis by using which a user points to a target object. An information generating server acquires an internal image or an external image of the target object pointed by a user, and generates a display image which is displayed on the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Motoaki Shimizu, Hitoshi Imaoka, Keiichi Chono, Fumihiro Adachi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Shin Ishiguro, Masayuki Yuguchi
  • Publication number: 20100214400
    Abstract: A terminal, information generating servers and a positional information server are provided. The information generating servers are installed in respectively corresponding to a plurality of objects. Each object may be divided into small blocks as one or more spatial regions and a case is included in which the block is the small block. One or more image acquisition cameras are provided which acquire an internal image of each object or an external image in which surroundings of each object are seen from the object. A display image to be transmitted to the terminal is generated from the internal image or the external image of each object based on at least one of terminal positional information indicating a position of the terminal and terminal directional information indicating a direction of the terminal. While pointing a to-be-identified target object among the objects, the terminal detects, detects the terminal positional information and the terminal directional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Motoaki Shimizu, Hitoshi Imaoka, Keiichi Chono, Fumihiro Adachi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Shin Ishiguro, Masayuki Yuguchi
  • Publication number: 20090257605
    Abstract: A master volume can be added to a circuit included in a vacuum tube amplifier apparatus, such as a guitar amplifier apparatus etc., without troublesome modification, such as soldering to the original circuit included in the amplifier apparatus, boring a chassis in the amplifier apparatus, or the like. Concretely, a master volume can be added to a circuit included in a vacuum tube amplifier apparatus by inserting or sandwiching adaptor 53 between socket 8 for a power amplification circuit and vacuum tube 21 for the power amplification circuit, and inserting or sandwiching adaptor 54 between socket 9 for the power amplification circuit and vacuum tube 22 for the power amplification circuit, in a power amplifier included in the vacuum tube amplifier apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: Motoaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7582974
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that improves adhesion between a resin and a die pad and prevents cracking of the resin includes: a semiconductor chip; a die pad on which the semiconductor chip is mounted; a bonding agent for bonding the semiconductor chip to the die pad; a plurality of inner leads provided at the outer periphery of the die pad; outer leads extending from the inner leads; bonding wires connecting the inner leads to the semiconductor chip mounted on the die pad; and a resin for sealing the inner leads, the die pad, the semiconductor chip, the bonding agent and the bonding wires. The bonding agent is further disposed in all or part of a margin of the die pad at a peripheral portion where the semiconductor chip is mounted, and a plurality of dimples are formed in the surface of the bonding agent in the die pad margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kaneda, Motoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20080246166
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that improves adhesion between a resin and a die pad and prevents cracking of the resin includes: a semiconductor chip; a die pad on which the semiconductor chip is mounted; a bonding agent for bonding the semiconductor chip to the die pad; a plurality of inner leads provided at the outer periphery of the die pad; outer leads extending from the inner leads; bonding wires connecting the inner leads to the semiconductor chip mounted on the die pad; and a resin for sealing the inner leads, the die pad, the semiconductor chip, the bonding agent and the bonding wires. The bonding agent is further disposed in all or part of a margin of the die pad at a peripheral portion where the semiconductor chip is mounted, and a plurality of dimples are formed in the surface of the bonding agent in the die pad margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kaneda, Motoaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7327643
    Abstract: In an optical disk apparatus for focusing a light beam on a track of an optical disk by using a tracking control loop to perform at least one of recording and reproducing operations upon the optical disk, a loop level calculating unit calculates loop levels of the tracking control loop. A control unit calculates a loop gain of the tracking control loop in accordance with the loop levels of the tracking control loop and compensates for a radial tilt of the optical disk in accordance with the calculated loop gain of the tracking control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naotoshi Iwazawa, Yutaka Yamanaka, Ryuichi Katayama, Masahumi Miura, Motoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20030179665
    Abstract: A tilt compensator in an optical disk drive detects an optimum tilt setting of the objective lens with respect to a reference plane of the optical head, which allows the optical head to obtain an optimum characteristic of a disk signal at a specified radial position of an optical disk. The optimum tilt setting is corrected at a desired track of the optical disk by using a difference between a first tilt angle of the reference plane with respect to the optical disk measured at the specified radial position and a second tilt angle of the reference plane measured at a desire track of the optical disk. The disk signal is a RF signal, a jitter of the encoded RF signal, a tracking error signal or a wobble signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naotoshi Iwazawa, Yutaka Yamanaka, Satoshi Sugaya, Motoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20030147315
    Abstract: In an optical disk apparatus for focusing a light beam on a track of an optical disk by using a tracking control loop to perform at least one of recording and reproducing operations upon the optical disk, a loop level calculating unit calculates loop levels of the tracking control loop. A control unit calculates a loop gain of the tracking control loop in accordance with the loop levels of the tracking control loop and compensates for a radial tilt of the optical disk in accordance with the calculated loop gain of the tracking control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotoshi Iwazawa, Yutaka Yamanaka, Ryuichi Katayama, Masahumi Miura, Motoaki Shimizu