Patents by Inventor RYOTA FUJIMURA

RYOTA FUJIMURA 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).

  • Patent number: 12503821
    Abstract: A supplemental tool for installation that can achieve both high magnetic-marker installation efficiency and high magnetic-marker installation accuracy is provided. A supplemental tool for arranging a magnetic marker in an accommodation hole provided by being drilled in a road surface includes a columnar-shaped retaining member including a retaining surface for the magnetic marker at an end portion in an axial direction and a detaching member combined with the retaining member so as to be able to move to the axial direction as opposed to the retaining member. A combination of the retaining member and the detaching member is such that detaching member can abut on the magnetic marker retained on the retaining surface, and it is configured so that the retaining member can retreat in the axial direction to a side away from the magnetic marker keeping a state in which the detaching member abuts on the magnetic marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Fujimura, Takayuki Ando, Tetsuya Iwase, Takashi Shimoto
  • Publication number: 20250371346
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor obtains a first classification threshold for classifying data into at least one of a plurality of classes, and outputs a classification result of classifying the data into at least one of the plurality of classes based on an output of a trained classification model and the first classification threshold. The first classification threshold is obtained by a second transform performed on a second classification threshold, the second transform being an inverse transform of a first transform. The first transform corresponds to transforming the output of the trained classification model into a classification probability value of each of a plurality of unit classes constituting the plurality of classes. The second classification threshold is set based on the classification probability values of the plurality of unit classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Yohei Nakata, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Publication number: 20250333915
    Abstract: A supplemental tool for installation that can achieve both high magnetic-marker installation efficiency and high magnetic-marker installation accuracy is provided. A supplemental tool for arranging a magnetic marker in an accommodation hole provided by being drilled in a road surface includes a columnar-shaped retaining member including a retaining surface for the magnetic marker at an end portion in an axial direction and a detaching member combined with the retaining member so as to be able to move to the axial direction as opposed to the retaining member. A combination of the retaining member and the detaching member is such that detaching member can abut on the magnetic marker retained on the retaining surface, and it is configured so that the retaining member can retreat in the axial direction to a side away from the magnetic marker keeping a state in which the detaching member abuts on the magnetic marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Applicant: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Takayuki ANDO, Tetsuya IWASE, Takashi SHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 12412084
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor obtains a first classification threshold for classifying data into at least one of a plurality of classes, and outputs a classification result of classifying the data into at least one of the plurality of classes based on an output of a trained classification model and the first classification threshold. The first classification threshold is obtained by a second transform performed on a second classification threshold, the second transform being an inverse transform of a first transform. The first transform corresponds to transforming the output of the trained classification model into a classification probability value of each of a plurality of unit classes constituting the plurality of classes. The second classification threshold is set based on the classification probability values of the plurality of unit classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Fujimura, Yohei Nakata, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Patent number: 12260624
    Abstract: An information processing method performed by a computer includes: obtaining prediction results that are results of prediction performed by predictors on same input data; obtaining, for each of the prediction results, an influence that the input data had on the prediction result; determining, based on the prediction results, one or more combinations of the prediction results; and presenting, side by side or by superposition, using a presentation device, influences obtained for prediction results that are included in the prediction results and are in a same combination among the one or more combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Fujimura, Yasunori Ishii, Takuya Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Urabe
  • Patent number: 12184993
    Abstract: An interval between a pinhole and a pinhole is set to a first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of a subject located at a distance less than a predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured. An interval between the pinhole and a pinhole is set to a second interval narrower than the first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of the subject located at a distance equal to or more than the predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20240231296
    Abstract: A control method by an information processing apparatus includes: acquiring operation information on a group of operations continuously performed to a plurality of devices disposed in a facility; calculating an operation cost required to perform the group of operations indicated by the operation information; generating, in a case that the operation cost is larger than a predetermined value, suggestion information indicative of a suggestion for performing collective control of the group of operations indicated by the operation information to the devices; and outputting the suggestion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yumiko SHINOHARA, Ryota FUJIMURA, Noriaki HORII
  • Publication number: 20240079902
    Abstract: An electricity charge output method includes, by a computer: acquiring a sum of electric energy usages, in a specified period, of a previously specified first device group among all devices provided at a facility and of a second device group that is among the all devices and is different from the first device group; acquiring an electric energy usage of the first device group in the specified period; reducing the sum in accordance with the electric energy usage of the first device group and calculating an electricity charge for the facility in the specified period, based on an electric energy after the reduction; and outputting information representing the electricity charge for the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Ryuta HAMAMOTO, Hiroki TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11808000
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped magnetic marker to be laid on a road surface so as to be able to be detected by a magnetic sensor attached to a vehicle to achieve assist for driving operation of the vehicle by a driver or control on a vehicle side to achieve automatic driving independently from operation of the driver has a magnet sheet (11) as a magnetism generation source and a wireless tag (2) which outputs information via wireless communication to the vehicle side. In the magnetic marker, the wireless tag (2) is interposed between a sheet (11A) and a sheet (11B) configuring the magnet sheet (11), and the entire wireless tag (2) is accommodated inside the magnet sheet (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiharu Yamamoto, Tomohiko Nagao, Masaaki Nakada, Ryota Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20230341831
    Abstract: An appliance control method includes: acquiring a user action of a user; predicting a plurality of action information items about future user actions of the user based on the user action, the plurality of action information items including a plurality of actions and predicted times at which the plurality of actions are predicted to be performed; determining appliance control operations corresponding to the plurality of actions based on the plurality of actions and the predicted times; and performing the appliance control operations based on the predicted times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Shigehiro IIDA, Toshiyuki SHIMIZU, Nobuhiko WAKAI, Yumiko SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20230138710
    Abstract: An interval between a pinhole and a pinhole is set to a first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of a subject located at a distance less than a predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured. An interval between the pinhole and a pinhole is set to a second interval narrower than the first interval at which a degree of superimposition of subject images captured through the corresponding pinholes falls within a predetermined range when an image of the subject located at a distance equal to or more than the predetermined distance from the multi-pinhole camera is captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Yasunori ISHII, Ryota FUJIMURA
  • Patent number: 11593817
    Abstract: A demand prediction method using a computer includes calculating an error between a prediction value of an amount of a past demand and a measurement value of the amount of the past demand, the prediction value of the amount of the past demand being calculated by inputting a measurement value of a past explanatory variable to a prediction model that is constructed in accordance with a measurement value of an amount of a demand at a predetermined location and an explanatory variable that serves as an external factor that affects an increase or a decrease in the amount of the demand at the predetermined location, determining whether the calculated error is an abnormal value, acquiring a new explanatory variable if the error is determined to be the abnormal value, updating the prediction model in accordance with the acquired new explanatory variable, and newly predicting an amount of a future demand using the updated prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Fujimura, Iku Ohama, Hideo Umetani, Yukie Shoda
  • Publication number: 20220412024
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped magnetic marker to be laid on a road surface so as to be able to be detected by a magnetic sensor attached to a vehicle to achieve assist for driving operation of the vehicle by a driver or control on a vehicle side to achieve automatic driving independently from operation of the driver has a magnet sheet (11) as a magnetism generation source and a wireless tag (2) which outputs information via wireless communication to the vehicle side. In the magnetic marker, the wireless tag (2) is interposed between a sheet (11A) and a sheet (11B) configuring the magnet sheet (11), and the entire wireless tag (2) is accommodated inside the magnet sheet (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Michiharu YAMAMOTO, Tomohiko NAGAO, Masaaki NAKADA, Ryota FUJIMURA
  • Patent number: 11481990
    Abstract: An information processing device is an information processing device including a processor. The processor obtains a detection result of a first detector for detecting a first target in first sensing data; and based on the detection result of the first detector, determines a setting of processing by a second detector for detecting a second target in second sensing data next in an order after the first sensing data, the second target being different from the first target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasunori Ishii, Takuya Yamaguchi, Yohei Nakata, Ryota Fujimura, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Patent number: 11454977
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining, from a mobile object, (i) at least one of operation information of the mobile object and traveling information indicating a traveling route taken by the mobile object, and (ii) sensor data obtained by sensing of the traveling route using a sensor included in the mobile object; causing a learning model to learn, using (i) the at least one of the operation information and the traveling information, and (ii) the sensor data as input, at least one of operation performed on and movement made by the mobile object using the sensor data obtained by sensing of the traveling route; generating, according to a number of times the learning model is trained, presentation information indicating the input required before the learning model completes learning about the traveling route; and causing a presentation device to present the presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Fujimura, Hiroaki Urabe, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Publication number: 20220292816
    Abstract: An information processing method performed by a computer includes: obtaining prediction results that are results of prediction performed by predictors on same input data; obtaining, for each of the prediction results, an influence that the input data had on the prediction result; determining, based on the prediction results, one or more combinations of the prediction results; and presenting, side by side or by superposition, using a presentation device, influences obtained for prediction results that are included in the prediction results and are in a same combination among the one or more combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Yasunori ISHII, Takuya YAMAGUCHI, Hiroaki URABE
  • Patent number: 11416707
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by a computer, and includes: obtaining a first image generated by a multi-pinhole camera; extracting at least one point spread function (PSF) in each of a plurality of regions in the first image; obtaining a second image different from the first image, and reference data used in machine learning for the second image; generating a third image, by convolving each of a plurality of regions in the second image with at least one PSF extracted in a corresponding region of the plurality of regions in the first image; and outputting a pair of the reference data and the third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura, Pongsak Lasang, Changxin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11341670
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. This processor: obtains at least one of first sensor data output from a first sensor and used to determine an ambient environment of a device in which a third sensor is placed, and second sensor data used to determine an orientation of this device; determines a tilt of a plane in a sensing direction of the third sensor with respect to the orientation of the device based on the at least one of the first sensor data and the second sensor data; determines, in accordance with the tilt determined, a processing target area of third sensor data output from the third sensor and used for object detection processing in the sensing direction of the third sensor; and executes the object detection processing using the processing target area determined, of the third sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yohei Nakata, Ryota Fujimura, Takuya Yamaguchi, Yasunori Ishii
  • Patent number: 11132561
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to: obtain sensing data from an optical sensor; obtain position information of a mobile body which includes the optical sensor; obtain map information; determine, in sensing data, a specific sensing data region corresponding to a specific region in a sensing region of the optical sensor by using the position information and the map information that have been obtained; determine input information to be provided to an object detection model, according to the specific sensing data region; and cause the object detection model to perform object detection processing by using the input information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11093517
    Abstract: A method is provided for reducing computer memory usage and processing time in assessing effectiveness of a prediction model. The method includes acquiring a plurality of records and sorting the records based on prediction values. The method also includes determining two of three performance data parameters, including a number of selected records and a number of correct decisions, and determining a level of effectiveness of the prediction model based on the two of three performance data parameters. The method further includes generating a graph illustrating the level of effectiveness of the prediction model based on the two of three performance parameters, and visually conveying the level of effectiveness of the prediction model utilizing the generated graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideo Umetani, Iku Ohama, Ryota Fujimura