Patents by Inventor Ryoji Hattori

Ryoji Hattori 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: 20240109360
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a printed material having a high-definition uneven pattern including expanded portions and a method for manufacturing the printed material. A method for manufacturing a printed material includes a step of preparing a thermal transfer sheet including a substrate and a transfer layer that is disposed on one surface side of the substrate and includes a layer containing foamable particles, and a step of heating the thermal transfer sheet to transfer the transfer layer of the thermal transfer sheet in a prescribed pattern a plurality of times onto a transfer receiving body to thereby form a layered body including a plurality of the transfer layers stacked one on another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Takashi ITO, Akihiro TADA
  • Patent number: 11912053
    Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layer provided on the substrate, and a transfer layer provided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layer is provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layer contains a silsesquioxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshida, Tomohiko Imoda, Yoshihiro Imakura, Yasuyuki Shouji, Daisuke Fukui, Ryoji Hattori, Koichiro Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20240034087
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet including a substrate and a transfer layer on the substrate in this order in the thickness direction, the transfer layer being peelable by thermal transfer, wherein the transfer layer includes an electrically conductive layer or metal-containing layer and an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer contains at least one component selected from a modified polyolefin and an ionomer, and the electrically conductive layer or the metal-containing layer constitutes a surface layer on the substrate side of the transfer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi IKEDA, Ryoji HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230349711
    Abstract: A movement route estimation device (50) includes an object search unit (504) and a movement route estimation unit (505). The object search unit (504) searches for, as a search feature value, each feature value of two or more feature values from among a plurality of object feature values, based on a similarity between a feature value corresponding to a movable object, which is an object that has moved in a target space in a target period, and a target feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Seiji OKUMURA, Takayuki KODAIRA, Hirofumi NISHIKAWA, Akito ARAI, Fuminori NAGASAWA, Eiji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230202221
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate and a transfer layer disposed on one surface side of the substrate, in which the transfer layer includes at least a discoloration- or decolorization-imparting layer, and the discoloration- or decolorization-imparting layer contains a compound responsible for discoloration or decolorization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Yuki IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230191819
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate and a sublimation transfer discoloration- or decolorization-imparting layer disposed on one surface side of the substrate, in which the sublimation transfer discoloration- or decolorization-imparting layer contains at least a compound responsible for discoloration or decolorization and a binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki IWASAKI, Ryoji HATTORI, Hiroshi EGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220375267
    Abstract: A basic-action-model acquisition unit (103) acquires a basic-action model which has been generated by analyzing a state of each of a plurality of parts of a movable object when the movable object performs a basic action, and which is a model for recognizing the basic action, for each of a plurality of the basic actions. An advanced-action-model generation unit (104) combines two or more basic-action models among a plurality of basic-action models, and generates an advanced-action model which is a model for recognizing an advanced action which is an action more complex than the basic action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori NAGASAWA, Akito ARAI, Ryoji HATTORI, Seiji OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220245947
    Abstract: A first estimation unit (23) estimates, on the basis of sensor data acquired from a sensor (42) allocated to a first position in a target space, a first congestion degree being a congestion degree about the first position. A second estimation unit (26) estimates a second congestion degree being a congestion degree about a second position, on the basis of the first congestion degree, the second position being a position on a travel route of a traveling object in the target space and being different from the first position. A third estimation unit (27) estimates a third congestion degree being a congestion degree about a third position which is neither the first position nor the second position in the target space, on the basis of the first congestion degree and the second congestion degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Seiji OKUMURA, Junya MIYAGI, Akito ARAI, Takahisa ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210402819
    Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layer provided on the substrate, and a transfer layer provided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layer is provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layer contains a silsesquioxane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya YOSHIDA, Tomohiko IMODA, Yoshihiro IMAKURA, Yasuyuki SHOUJI, Daisuke FUKUI, Ryoji HATTORI, Koichiro KURODA
  • Patent number: 11148450
    Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate 1, a release layer 2 provided on the substrate 1, and a transfer layer 10 provided on the release layer 2, wherein the transfer layer 10 is provided peelably from the release layer 2, and the release layer 2 contains a silsesquioxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshida, Tomohiko Imoda, Yoshihiro Imakura, Yasuyuki Shouji, Daisuke Fukui, Ryoji Hattori, Koichiro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11051014
    Abstract: A parallel processing starting unit 3 that partitions an inputted image into tiles each having a predetermined size, and distributes tiles obtained through the partitioning, and N tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N each of that carries out a prediction difference encoding process on a tile distributed thereto by the parallel processing starting unit 3 to generate a local decoded image are disposed, and each of N tile loop filter units 7-1 to 7-N determines a filter per tile suitable for a filtering process on the local decoded image generated by the corresponding one of the tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N, and carries out the filtering process on the local decoded image by using the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Hattori, Akira Minezawa, Yusuke Itani, Kazuo Sugimoto, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Yoshimi Moriya, Norimichi Hiwasa
  • Patent number: 11034178
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer sheet having satisfactory peelability when a transfer layer is peeled off without being affected by a peeling environment when the transfer layer is peeled off. A thermal transfer sheet 100 includes a substrate 1 and a transfer layer 10 provided on one surface of the substrate 1, in which the peeling force in a stable period is in the range of 4.6 g/cm or more and 23 g/cm or less when the transfer layer 10 is peeled off at a peeling temperature in the range of 30° C. or more and 70° C. or less and at a peeling angle of 90° while the surface of the transfer layer 10 on the side opposite to the substrate 1 is made to serve as a peeling interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Imakura, Ryoji Hattori, Yasuyuki Shouji, Kazuya Yoshida, Tomohiko Imoda
  • Publication number: 20200369012
    Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate 1, a release layer 2 provided on the substrate 1, and a transfer layer 10 provided on the release layer 2, wherein the transfer layer 10 is provided peelably from the release layer 2, and the release layer 2 contains a silsesquioxane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya YOSHIDA, Tomohiko IMODA, Yoshihiro IMAKURA, Yasuyuki SHOUJI, Daisuke FUKUI, Ryoji HATTORI, Koichiro KURODA
  • Publication number: 20200296361
    Abstract: A parallel processing starting unit 3 that partitions an inputted image into tiles each having a predetermined size, and distributes tiles obtained through the partitioning, and N tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N each of that carries out a prediction difference encoding process on a tile distributed thereto by the parallel processing starting unit 3 to generate a local decoded image are disposed, and each of N tile loop filter units 7-1 to 7-N determines a filter per tile suitable for a filtering process on the local decoded image generated by the corresponding one of the tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N, and carries out the filtering process on the local decoded image by using the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Akira MINEZAWA, Yusuke ITANI, Kazuo SUGIMOTO, Shunichi SEKIGUCHI, Yoshimi MORIYA, Norimichi HIWASA
  • Patent number: 10708586
    Abstract: A parallel processing starting unit 3 that partitions an inputted image into tiles each having a predetermined size, and distributes tiles obtained through the partitioning, and N tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N each of that carries out a prediction difference encoding process on a tile distributed thereto by the parallel processing starting unit 3 to generate a local decoded image are disposed, and each of N tile loop filter units 7-1 to 7-N determines a filter per tile suitable for a filtering process on the local decoded image generated by the corresponding one of the tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N, and carries out the filtering process on the local decoded image by using the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Hattori, Akira Minezawa, Yusuke Itani, Kazuo Sugimoto, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Yoshimi Moriya, Norimichi Hiwasa
  • Patent number: 10643338
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: an optical flow calculator to calculate an optical flow between images captured by the image capturer at different times; an evaluation value calculator to divide the image captured by the image capturer into areas, and calculate, for each divided area, an evaluation value by using the optical flows of pixels belonging to the divided area, the evaluation value indicating a measure of a possibility that the divided area is an object area representing part or whole of the object to be detected; and an area determinator to determine an area in an image, in which the object to be detected exists, by comparing the evaluation value of each divided area calculated by the evaluation value calculator with a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Miyazawa, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Hideaki Maehara, Yoshimi Moriya, Akira Minezawa, Ryoji Hattori, Momoyo Nagase, Tomoya Sawada
  • Publication number: 20200092549
    Abstract: A parallel processing starting unit 3 that partitions an inputted image into tiles each having a predetermined size, and distributes tiles obtained through the partitioning, and N tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N each of that carries out a prediction difference encoding process on a tile distributed thereto by the parallel processing starting unit 3 to generate a local decoded image are disposed, and each of N tile loop filter units 7-1 to 7-N determines a filter per tile suitable for a filtering process on the local decoded image generated by the corresponding one of the tile encoding units 5-1 to 5-N, and carries out the filtering process on the local decoded image by using the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Akira MINEZAWA, Yusuke ITANI, Kazuo SUGIMOTO, Shunichi SEKIGUCHI, Yoshimi MORIYA, Norimichi HIWASA
  • Patent number: 10576711
    Abstract: An object is to provide a transfer film that can impart sufficient durability such as abrasion resistance and solvent resistance to a transfer object surface and has high transfer property without causing any transfer failures such as tailing and burr. The transfer film according to the present invention comprises a substrate and a protective layer peelably provided on the substrate, wherein the protective layer comprises an active ray-cured resin and a filler; wherein the active ray-cured resin contains polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate as a polymerization component; and wherein the filler has a volume average particle size of 40 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshida, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Imakura, Ryoji Hattori
  • Patent number: 10549513
    Abstract: A transfer film of which transfer layer has satisfactory transferability, in which each of layers constituting the transfer layer has satisfactory interlayer adhesiveness, and which can impart very high durability to a print. Specifically, a transfer film in which a transfer layer is provided on a substrate, wherein the transfer layer has a layered structure in which a protective layer, an intermediate layer, and an adhesive layer are layered in this order from the side of the substrate, the protective layer is allowed to contain an active ray-cured resin formed by curing an active ray-curable resin by using an active ray, the intermediate layer is allowed to contain a cured binder resin, which is a cured product of a binder resin and a curing agent, and either one or both of the protective layer and the intermediate layer are allowed to further contain a surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Imakura, Ryoji Hattori
  • Patent number: 10538119
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer film that allows a transfer layer to have satisfactory transferability and can provide a print with high durability. The present invention solves the above problem by a transfer film 100 in which an adhesion layer 7, a release layer 2, and a transfer layer 10 are provided in this order on a substrate 1, wherein the transfer layer 10 has a layered structure in which a protective layer 3 and an adhesive layer 5 are layered in this order from the side of the substrate, the protective layer 3 is allowed to contain an active ray-cured resin formed by curing an active ray-curable resin by an active ray, and the adhesion layer 7 is allowed to contain a cured binder resin which is a cured product of a binder resin and a curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Imakura, Ryoji Hattori, Kazuya Yoshida, Hiroyuki Hasegawa