Patents by Inventor Ryuji Inoue

Ryuji Inoue 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: 11948319
    Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Tomoya Shimizu, Ryuji Honda, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 10362091
    Abstract: An unregistered first subject device is managed in memory as one or more subject devices. A room selection screen for selection of a room where the unregistered first subject device is installed, is displayed on a display. The unregistered first subject device is associated with a first room and managed as a registered first subject device, based on selection of the first room from the room selection screen. A room list screen including a first room icon representing the first room is generated, and displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Ryuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 10169785
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance of a first type corresponding to the first user ID; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the difference value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10102554
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the differential value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10074116
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of the plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9917750
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of a plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID in a prescribed period and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in the prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance corresponding to a first type among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9878757
    Abstract: A fuel tank is disposed under a flat footboard. A vehicle body cover is disposed laterally of the fuel tank. An opening introduces travelling wind to a space between the fuel tank and the vehicle body cover. A first exhaust pipe is located upstream of a catalyst and is connected to an exhaust port. A catalyst housing portion accommodates the catalyst, is connected to the first exhaust pipe, and extends backwardly from the first exhaust pipe. A second exhaust pipe is located downstream of the catalyst, is connected to the catalyst housing portion, extends backwardly from the catalyst housing portion, and is connected to a silencer. The first exhaust pipe at least partially overlaps with the fuel tank in a vehicle front view. The catalyst housing portion is at least partially disposed rearward of the space between the fuel tank and the vehicle body cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Inomori, Ryuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 9408562
    Abstract: A pet medical checkup device of the present disclosure includes a shooting section that shoots a moving image of a pet, a first storage section that stores the moving image of the pet shot by the shooting section, a first database that stores motion information representing a specific motion made by the pet when the pet has a disease for each disease of the pet, a first determination section that determines whether or not the pet is making the specific motion represented by the motion information stored in the first database using the moving image of the pet stored in the first storage section, and an estimation section that estimates the disease of the pet based on a determination result of the first determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kojima, Ryuji Inoue, Toru Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20160080465
    Abstract: An unregistered first subject device is managed in memory as one or more subject devices. A room selection screen for selection of a room where the unregistered first subject device is installed, is displayed on a display. The unregistered first subject device is associated with a first room and managed as a registered first subject device, based on selection of the first room from the room selection screen. A room list screen including a first room icon representing the first room is generated, and displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: TAKAMITSU SASAKI, RYUJI INOUE
  • Patent number: 9265235
    Abstract: An accidental ingestion detecting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a swallowing sensing unit which senses swallowing by an animal; a swallowing detecting unit which detects swallowing based on sensing data outputted by the swallowing sensing unit and which outputs swallowing information that is information related to the swallowing; a feeding information inputting unit which accepts input of information related to feeding of the animal and which outputs the information as feeding information; and an accidental ingestion determining unit which determines accidental ingestion by the animal, wherein the accidental ingestion determining unit determines accidental ingestion by the animal based on date/time information included in the swallowing information and date/time information included in the feeding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Yoshihiro Kojima, Toru Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 9201393
    Abstract: A toner container includes a substantially tetrahedral toner-containing portion having an openable edge to discharge toner contained in the toner-containing portion, and a reference fold along which the toner container is foldable after the openable edge is opened. The reference fold extends from the openable edge and is provided on medians of two triangular faces of the toner-containing portion adjoining each other along the openable edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Furuichi, Rie Mitani, Takafumi Miyazaki, Hidekazu Shono, Osamu Saito, Ryuji Inoue, Tetsumaru Fujita, Kei Hasegawa, Yasuhide Ohkubo, Tomofumi Yoshida, Shintaro Yamada, Yoshihiro Fukuhata, Ryouhei Ohi
  • Publication number: 20150319056
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of a plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID in a prescribed period and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in the prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance corresponding to a first type among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji INOUE, Takamitsu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150317705
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of the plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji INOUE, Takamitsu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150317704
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance of a first type corresponding to the first user ID; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the difference value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji INOUE, Takamitsu SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9171016
    Abstract: A content selection apparatus selects a target content item which is a content item to be presented to a user, from a plurality of content items. The plurality of content items are sorted into a plurality of management units according to a creation date and time of each content item. The content selection apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a predetermined number of management units in ascending order of the number of sorted content items, and selects a content item that belongs to the selected management units as the target content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Minehisa Nagata
  • Publication number: 20150262267
    Abstract: A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the differential value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuji INOUE, Takamitsu SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9131664
    Abstract: An excrement detection system of this disclosure includes: an excretion information acquiring apparatus acquiring excretion information indicating whether a pet in a living space has performed excretion; a toilet observing apparatus observing inside of a pet toilet to acquire toilet information regarding inside of the pet toilet; an excretion information processing unit determining whether the pet has performed excretion based on the excretion information; a toilet information processing unit determining whether the pet is in the pet toilet based on the toilet information; an excretion position determining unit determining that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion and that the pet is absent from the pet toilet; and a notifying unit notifying a pet's owner that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Toru Tanigawa, Yoshihiro Kojima, Ryuji Inoue
  • Patent number: 9098385
    Abstract: A content managing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains (i) a first content item held by a first user, (ii) a metadata item that indicates attribute information for classifying the first content item, and (iii) information on a sharing state, between the first user and a second user who is a user other than the first user, of a second content item having a metadata item identical to the metadata item held by the first content item; a degree of interest calculating unit which calculates a degree of interest that is an index indicating an interest of the second user on the metadata item; and a managing unit which manages the first content item based on the degree of interest of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryuji Inoue, Ryota Tsukidate
  • Publication number: 20150166139
    Abstract: A fuel tank is disposed under a flat footboard. A vehicle body cover is disposed laterally of the fuel tank. An opening introduces travelling wind to a space between the fuel tank and the vehicle body cover. A first exhaust pipe is located upstream of a catalyst and is connected to an exhaust port. A catalyst housing portion accommodates the catalyst, is connected to the first exhaust pipe, and extends backwardly from the first exhaust pipe. A second exhaust pipe is located downstream of the catalyst, is connected to the catalyst housing portion, extends backwardly from the catalyst housing portion, and is connected to a silencer. The first exhaust pipe at least partially overlaps with the fuel tank in a vehicle front view. The catalyst housing portion is at least partially disposed rearward of the space between the fuel tank and the vehicle body cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Toshinori INOMORI, Ryuji INOUE
  • Patent number: 9058101
    Abstract: A display control device includes a first-contents-list displaying unit which displays a first contents list on a display screen, a base-point-content identifying unit which identifies a base-point content on the first contents list, a base-point-content-position obtaining unit which obtains a first base-point-content position on the first contents list, a focus position obtaining unit which obtains a focus position on the first contents list, a positional difference calculating unit which calculates a positional difference between the first base-point-content position and the focus position, and a first scrolling unit which scrolls the first contents list displayed on the display screen so that the positional difference decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Keiji Icho, Yuichi Kobayakawa, Ryuji Inoue, Ryouichi Kawanishi