Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Watanabe
Nobuyuki Watanabe 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).
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Publication number: 20240143284Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes an arithmetic circuit that performs an acquiring step of acquiring swing data indicating relationship between a physical quantity concerning an amount of deformation of an object to be measured and time, a determining step of determining whether the swing data indicates the physical quantity concerning the amount of deformation of the object to be measured, which occurs when the object to be measured is swung, to determine whether the swing data is to be deleted, and a deleting step of deleting the swing data if it is determined that the swing data does not indicate the physical quantity concerning the amount of deformation of the object to be measured, which occurs when the object to be measured is swung.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jun MAKINO, Koji KAWANO, Nobuyuki NOZAWA, Tomoshige FURUHI, Takashi WATANABE, Takehiko IIZUKA, Kenta AGO
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Publication number: 20240142216Abstract: A sensor unit includes: a sensor that is attached to a measurement target object becoming deformed in response to a swing taken with the measurement target object and that generates an output signal indicating a relationship between a physical quantity related to an amount of deformation of the measurement target object and a time; a feature value generation circuit that generates a feature value, the feature value being a parameter indicating a feature of the swing, on the basis of the output signal obtained by the sensor; and a communication unit that is attached to the measurement target object and that transmits the feature value to an external device by wireless communication or wired communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jun MAKINO, Koji KAWANO, Nobuyuki NOZAWA, Tomoshige FURUHI, Takashi WATANABE, Takehiko IIZUKA, Kenta AGO
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Patent number: 11972619Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage configured to store display region information and a count value, the display region information indicating a position of a predetermined display region in a first image corresponding to image data, the count value indicating frequency of display of each predetermined region in the first image; and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to, based on the image data and an instruction signal for selecting the display region, generate a display image corresponding to the display region that is selected by the instruction signal, determine whether the display region information meets a first condition, add a predetermined value to the count value of the region on which it is determined that the first condition is met, and set, for a region of interest, a region that draws an interest in the first image based on the count value.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Evident CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Watanabe, Hidetoshi Nishimura, Kazuhito Horiuchi
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Patent number: 11948952Abstract: In a solid-state imaging device, a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor, and at least a part of electric charge holding unit, among pixel constituent elements, are disposed on a first semiconductor substrate. An amplifying transistor, a signal processing circuit other than a reset transistor, and a plurality of common output lines, to which signals are read out from a plurality of pixels, are disposed on a second semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Yamazaki, Tetsuya Itano, Nobuyuki Endo, Kyouhei Watanabe
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Patent number: 11942501Abstract: An apparatus according to the present invention in which a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion element and a gate electrode of a transistor, and a second substrate including a peripheral circuit portion are placed upon each other. The first substrate does not include a high-melting-metal compound layer, and the second substrate includes a high-melting-metal compound layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Endo, Tetsuya Itano, Kazuo Yamazaki, Kyouhei Watanabe, Takeshi Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20240088196Abstract: A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. In addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Nobuyuki Endo, Tetsuya Itano, Kazuo Yamazaki, Kyouhei Watanabe, Junji Iwata
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Publication number: 20240068796Abstract: Provided is a sensor unit including a first sensor portion that detects deformation of a measuring target object and a second sensor portion that detects deformation of the measuring target object, in which in a state in which the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion are attached to the measuring target object, the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion are fixed to the measuring target object such that the measuring target object is disposed between the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion in a first direction, and a physical property value of the first sensor portion and a physical property value of the second sensor portion are changed according to first deformation of the measuring target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Takehiko IIZUKA, Nobuyuki NOZAWA, Tomoshige FURUHI, Koji KAWANO, Takashi WATANABE, Jun MAKINO, Kenta AGO
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Publication number: 20230328346Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera module and an electronic device that can improve heat dissipation. A movable member has an image sensor on a front side and is movable in a direction along an imaging surface of the image sensor, the fixed member is fixed with a predetermined gap interposed between the fixed member and the movable member on a back side of the movable member, and at least one heat dissipating member is fixed to at least one of the fixed member and the movable member and is in contact with the other in the gap. The present disclosure is applicable to a camera module of a sensor-shift system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichiro SHIBAZAKI, Kozo HOSHINO, Shinichi YUZUKI, Tetsuya NAKAGAWA, Kiyohiro SAITO, Yuta SHISHIDO, Kazumi KOBAYASHI, Nobuyuki WATANABE, Masaki HOSHINO
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Patent number: 11662019Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus including a first and second control valves switched to exert hydraulic pressure on a piston to press toward first position, a third and fourth control valves switched to exert hydraulic pressure on the piston to press toward second position and, a CPU. The CPU performs executing a first process controlling the control valves so that hydraulic pressure is exerted by switching of the first, second and third control valves or a second process controlling the control valves so that hydraulic pressure is exerted by switching of the second control valve and determining that the first control valve is failed when movement of the piston to the first position is not detected through the first process and determining that the third control valve is failed when movement of the piston to the first position is not detected through the second process.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Noguchi, Shunsuke Yoshida, Yuki Ono, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kotaro Hiramine, Yasunobu Tandai
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Patent number: 11586223Abstract: A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Hisao Asaumi, Kentaro Ishisaka, Izumi Kondo, Satoshi Koike, Tomohisa Manabe, Yo Ito, Yuki Hayashi, Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada, Kovi Ahego, Liyan Liu, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Masashi Yuki, Takafumi Hirose, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Masaaki Onoda, Christopher Lang
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Patent number: 11541908Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Patent number: 11494950Abstract: An experience providing system includes: a passenger information detector configured to detect information regarding a passenger of a vehicle; an outside information detector configured to detect information outside the vehicle; an output section configured to output sound; a virtual image generator configured to output display; and a provider configured to dynamically provide an interaction to the passenger of the vehicle by causing the sound output from the output section to be synchronized with the display output from the virtual image generator on the basis of detection results of the passenger information detector and the outside information detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
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Patent number: 11327491Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering or acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. The driving control unit determines whether or not an occupant is riding in the vehicle, and differentiates a road on which the vehicle is caused to travel, between a case where it is determined that the occupant is riding in the vehicle and a case where it is determined that the occupant is not riding in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 11231281Abstract: An information-processing device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires sensor detection information indicating a detection result from a sensor mounted in a vehicle, a derivation unit that derives a plurality of indices for a surrounding environment based on the sensor detection information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates attribute information of a point at which the sensor detection information is acquired based on the plurality of indices derived by the derivation unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20210364776Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage configured to store display region information and a count value, the display region information indicating a position of a predetermined display region in a first image corresponding to image data, the count value indicating frequency of display of each predetermined region in the first image; and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to, based on the image data and an instruction signal for selecting the display region, generate a display image corresponding to the display region that is selected by the instruction signal, determine whether the display region information meets a first condition, add a predetermined value to the count value of the region on which it is determined that the first condition is met, and set, for a region of interest, a region that draws an interest in the first image based on the count value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki WATANABE, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA, Kazuhito HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20210326625Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to cause a display to display a second image according to an input of an operation, the second image corresponding to a field of view corresponding to at least part of a first image contained in imaging data that is generated by capturing an observation subject, analyze change of the field of view over time to calculate an attention degree, and set a region of interest in the first image contained in the imaging data according to the attention degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhito HORIUCHI, Nobuyuki WATANABE, Yoshioki KANEKO, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA
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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Publication number: 20210297635Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to analyze, based on gaze data obtained by detecting a gaze of a user and input externally, an attention degree of the gaze of the user with respect to an observation image, allocate importance corresponding to the attention degree to speech data representing speech of the user, the speech data being input externally and being associated with a same time axis as a time axis of the gaze data, record the speech data and the importance in a storage, and set a region of interest in the observation image according to the attention degree and the importance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhito HORIUCHI, Nobuyuki WATANABE, Yoshioki KANEKO, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA -
Patent number: 11106206Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller does not perform determination of an operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration when the recognizer has recognized that an occupant is riding in the own-vehicle, and determines the operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration on the basis of a state of another vehicle present near the own-vehicle recognized by the recognizer when the recognizer has recognized that no occupant is riding in the own-vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 11069239Abstract: An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20210150772Abstract: An experience providing system includes: a passenger information detector configured to detect information regarding a passenger of a vehicle; an outside information detector configured to detect information outside the vehicle; an output section configured to output sound; a virtual image generator configured to output display; and a provider configured to dynamically provide an interaction to the passenger of the vehicle by causing the sound output from the output section to be synchronized with the display output from the virtual image generator on the basis of detection results of the passenger information detector and the outside information detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada