Patents by Inventor Satoshi Shimada
Satoshi Shimada 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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Patent number: 11656825Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
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Patent number: 11609097Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire sponsor information including information on a facility available as a getting-in place or getting-off place for ride sharing, information on a time period during which the facility is available as the getting-in place or getting-off place for ride sharing, and information on a privilege when the facility is used as the getting-in place or getting-off place for ride sharing; and provide the acquired sponsor information to a ride sharing coordinator.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiko Nakanishi, Yuko Mizuno, Masayuki Matsuda, Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Maekawa, Yorichika Ishiyama
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Patent number: 11426064Abstract: In examining a patient for progression of glaucoma, a perimeter capable of appropriately assessing visual field progression in a short period of time, therefore lessening the physical burden of testing on the examinee.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Inventors: Toru Nakazawa, Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Hara
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Patent number: 11321975Abstract: An onboard apparatus comprises a communication unit; and a controller configured to execute: detecting start of running of a vehicle provided for sharing a ride, detecting a driver at the start of running, detecting change of the driver after the start of running and measuring passage information including at least one of running time and running distance from the start of running until the change of the driver, and transmitting the measured passage information to an information processing apparatus via the communication unit along with identification information for identifying the driver detected before the change of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuko Mizuno, Kazuhiko Nakanishi, Masayuki Matsuda, Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Maekawa, Yorichika Ishiyama
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Publication number: 20220051670Abstract: A learning support device acquires sound data; extracts a letter string representing content of an utterance for each utterance by a learner included in the sound data; identify, for each utterance, a learner who has made the utterance from among a plurality of learners based on the sound data; identify emotion information representing an emotion of the learner in the utterance, based on at least one of the sound data and data of a moving image captured together with the sound data; and outputs, for each group to which learner belongs, the plurality of pieces of emotion information in time series order with being associated with the plurality of letter strings.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Futoshi TABATA, Ryuunosuki MUTOU, Satoshi SHIMADA, Toshiyuki KATAOKA
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Patent number: 11231290Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire information for identifying a vehicle conducting ride-sharing; and instruct a management apparatus of a toll road to apply preferential treatment when the vehicle conducting the ride-sharing travels along the toll road.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Shimada, Kazuhiko Nakanishi, Yuko Mizuno, Masayuki Matsuda, Takuya Maekawa, Yorichika Ishiyama
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Patent number: 11207859Abstract: A powdery-material feeding device is configured to feed a powdery material to a compression-molding machine configured to obtain a molded product by filling a die bore with the powdery material and to compress the powdery material with punches. The powdery-material feeding device includes a detector configured to detect a biologically-originated foreign matter mixedly contained in the powdery material to be fed to the compression-molding machine, and a controller configured to control to remove the powdery material mixedly containing the biologically-originated foreign matter detected by the detector to avoid feeding of the powdery material mixedly containing the biologically-originated foreign matter to the compression-molding machine, or to control to stop the feeding of the powdery material to the compression-molding machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Naoshige Kitamura
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Patent number: 11193777Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire information for identifying a vehicle conducting ride-sharing; and instruct a management apparatus of a toll road to apply preferential treatment when the vehicle conducting the ride-sharing travels along the toll road.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Shimada, Kazuhiko Nakanishi, Yuko Mizuno, Masayuki Matsuda, Takuya Maekawa, Yorichika Ishiyama
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Publication number: 20210287563Abstract: A scoring device includes a classifying unit and an adding unit. The classifying unit classifies answer data into a plurality of subsets. The adding unit adds a scoring criterion to be used in scoring the answer data based on a result of classifying by the classifying unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki KATAOKA, Shun MARUYAMA, Jun ONODERA, Satoshi SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20210245682Abstract: A sound-absorbing material for vehicles that is mounted to a vehicle interior and that is provided with a main body in which at least a fibrous material and a skin material are integrally molded. The sound-absorbing material for vehicles is characterized in that a sound-absorbing section provided to at least part of the main body is formed so as to be mounted to the vehicle interior within a range in which the vertical distance Elh from the lower surface of the head rests of the front seats downward is 0.1-0.4 m, and in that the air flow resistance AFR (Ns/m3) and the vertical distance Elh (m) satisfy 210<AFR+10/Elh<3020.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: MT-TEC LLCInventors: Tomoyuki HAGIO, Morio SUZUKI, Yoshiaki SUZUKI, Satoshi SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11070814Abstract: A video image encoding apparatus includes an in-picture motion vector calculation unit and a vector encoding unit. The in-picture motion vector calculation unit calculates an in-picture motion vector indicating a spatial movement amount between a block to be encoded and a reference block in an encoded region in the picture to be encoded. The vector encoding unit obtains a prediction vector for predicting the in-picture motion vector of the block to be encoded based on at least one of a first in-picture motion vector calculated in a first reference available region including a block encoded before the block to be encoded is encoded and a second in-picture motion vector calculated in a second reference available region including a block in a position corresponding to the block to be encoded in an already encoded reference picture, and performs prediction encoding on the in-picture motion vector based on the prediction vector.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Jumpei Koyama, Satoshi Shimada
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Patent number: 10932663Abstract: In a perimetry to be conducted, designating an inspection region through a region designator, a perimeter is configured to set a required time of the perimetry (upper limit time) through an upper limit condition setter and to determine total number or positions of stimulus presentation spots based upon the upper limit time. In such a configuration, an examinee knows the time to finish the inspection, and is able to highly keep his (her) concentration in comparison with a case where the required time is not known, thereby improving precision of the inspection.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Hara
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Patent number: 10766495Abstract: An onboard apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute acquisition of information regarding a driving environment on a route from a riding point of a passenger riding on a vehicle to an alighting point where the passenger alights; and calculation of points given to a driver who drives the vehicle along the route according to the information regarding the driving environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Matsuda, Kazuhiko Nakanishi, Yuko Mizuno, Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Maekawa, Yorichika Ishiyama
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Patent number: 10757421Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: calculate, for a first block included in a coding target picture included in moving image data, a ratio of an area of a corrected block obtained by correcting distortion of a subject represented in the first block to an area of the first block, set code amount control information for the first block such that the higher the ratio for the first block, the larger a code amount which is assigned to the first block, and code a second block belonging to the first block among a plurality of second blocks which is obtained by dividing the coding target picture according to the code amount control information for the first block.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Akihiro Yamori, Satoshi Shimada
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Publication number: 20200205655Abstract: A perimeter 2 capable of acquiring, as a threshold SV, a value corresponding to a response result of a subject 22 to an optotype presented with various brightness, for measurement points set across an entire measurement field of view of the ocular fundus, displaying the threshold SV as a threshold inspection result SHR and storing the same in a memory 13, comprises: a portion 15 for obtaining a pattern deviation PDV of the threshold SV relating to each measurement point RG, from the threshold inspection result SHR; a portion for 15 for obtaining a P value representing the obtained pattern deviation PDV for each measurement point RG as a probability variable, and generating a probability map image MAP4 indicating the measurement points RG separately for each P value; a portion 16 for selecting, from an abnormal measurement point group RG of points in the probability map image MAP4 in which at least a prescribed number of measurement points having a P value at most equal to 5% are continuous, and, of those, forType: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: Tohoku University, Kowa Company, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Nakazawa, Satoshi Shimada, Takuya Hara
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VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD
Publication number: 20200177907Abstract: A video encoding apparatus appends decoding delay and display delay correction information to encoded video data in order to ensure that even when one or more pictures that are later in encoding order than a starting encoded picture in a video data stream to be spliced to a trailing end of another encoded video data stream have been discarded from among pictures contained in the video data stream, the starting encoded picture and its subsequent pictures can be continuously decoded and displayed by a video decoding apparatus. The correction information is calculated based on a decoding interval between each discarded picture and a picture that immediately precedes the discarded picture. The video decoding apparatus corrects the decoding delay and display delay of the starting encoded picture and its subsequent pictures by using the calculated correction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kimihiko KAZUI, Junpei KOYAMA, Satoshi SHIMADA -
Patent number: 10638155Abstract: An apparatus for a video encoding process executes a difference process for calculating a difference value between corresponding pixels of a first reference block on a first encoded reference picture in a first direction and a second reference block on a second encoded reference picture in a second direction; executes a predictive process for generating a predictive block by calculating a pixel value of the predictive block in accordance with the bi-predictive mode for each pixel in which an absolute value of the difference value is less than a threshold value, and by calculating the pixel value of the predictive block based on a value of the corresponding pixel of one of the first reference block and the second reference block for each pixel in which the absolute value of the difference value is the threshold value or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kenshiro Takeuchi, Kimihiko Kazui, Satoshi Shimada, Hidenobu Miyoshi, Guillaume Denis Christian Barroux
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Patent number: 10632702Abstract: A molded product processing system is configured to apply a post process to a molded product molded by a compression-molding machine. The system includes modules each including a conveying mechanism configured to convey a plurality of molded products P kept aligned, and a processing mechanism confronting a travel route of the molded products conveyed by the conveying mechanism and configured to apply a predetermined post process to each of the conveyed molded products, in which upstream one of the modules and downstream one of the modules are connected to allow the molded products having gone through certain processing at the upstream one of the modules to be delivered to the downstream one of the modules and be subjected to a different predetermined processing at one of the modules.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Tomohiro Kakitani, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hitoshi Kusunoki, Satoru Watano
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Video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding method, and video decoding method
Patent number: 10582208Abstract: A video encoding apparatus appends decoding delay and display delay correction information to encoded video data in order to ensure that even when one or more pictures that are later in encoding order than a starting encoded picture in a video data stream to be spliced to a trailing end of another encoded video data stream have been discarded from among pictures contained in the video data stream, the starting encoded picture and its subsequent pictures can be continuously decoded and displayed by a video decoding apparatus. The correction information is calculated based on a decoding interval between each discarded picture and a picture that immediately precedes the discarded picture. The video decoding apparatus corrects the decoding delay and display delay of the starting encoded picture and its subsequent pictures by using the calculated correction information.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kimihiko Kazui, Junpei Koyama, Satoshi Shimada -
Publication number: 20200027291Abstract: An onboard apparatus comprises a communication unit; and a controller configured to execute: detecting start of running of a vehicle provided for sharing a ride, detecting a driver at the start of running, detecting change of the driver after the start of running and measuring passage information including at least one of running time and running distance from the start of running until the change of the driver, and transmitting the measured passage information to an information processing apparatus via the communication unit along with identification information for identifying the driver detected before the change of the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuko MIZUNO, Kazuhiko NAKANISHI, Masayuki MATSUDA, Satoshi SHIMADA, Takuya MAEKAWA, Yorichika ISHIYAMA