Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kuroda
Shinichi Kuroda 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: 20170305717Abstract: An elevator device that can continuously evacuate any evacuee left in a building by using an elevator. The elevator device includes a control device configured to maintain an evacuation operation mode corresponding to a rescue floor concerned when a car operation instructing device is operated on the rescue floor concerned before a predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned, and release the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned when the car operation instructing device is not operated on the rescue floor concerned before the predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Chiaki HONDA, Masashi KOMATSU, Ashiqur RAHMAN, David Willem Lodewijk OFFERHAUS, Takaharu UEDA, Shinichi KURODA, Koji YAMAGISHI, Kenji TANIYAMA
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Publication number: 20170303315Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi MORIOKA, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Shinichi Kuroda, Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: 9790053Abstract: An elevator device includes: a first reader, a second reader, a determination section, and a request output section. The first reader is provided in a hall of an elevator. The second reader is provided in a car of the elevator. In the case where identification information has been read by the first reader, the determination section determines whether or not the identification information has been read by the second reader before the reading thereof by the first reader. On the basis of the identification information read by the first reader, the request output section outputs a registration request for a call to a control section. In the case where the determination section determines that the identification information has been read by the second reader, the request output section does not output a registration request for a call corresponding to the identification information to the control section.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kuroda
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Patent number: 9780452Abstract: Embodiments include a communication device, having a wireless communication processor. The communication device includes an antenna connected to a feeding point of the wireless communication processor. The communication device also includes a metal component disposed proximal the antenna and a circuit board including a ground plane. The communication device further includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line which connect the ground plane to two locations on the antenna, on one end and the other end of a location proximal the metal component.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Shinichi Kuroda, Takanori Nakazawa
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Patent number: 9730109Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Morioka, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Shinichi Kuroda, Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: 9723632Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Morioka, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Shinichi Kuroda, Ryo Sawai
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Publication number: 20170211226Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a highly functional surface-modified fibrous material with high added value, to which a novel functionality is imparted while making use of the characteristics inherent in the fibrous material, by modifying the surface of a natural fibrous material derived from an animal or a plant, or of a synthetic fiber; and a surface-modified fibrous material thereby obtained. The method of manufacturing a surface-modified fibrous material according to the invention includes attaching an inorganic material on the surface of a fibrous material by a sol-gel reaction, while allowing the fibrous material to move via an air stream. Preferably, an atmospheric-pressure low-temperature plasma is further applied to the surface of the fibrous material on the surface of which the inorganic material has been attached, while allowing the fibrous material to move via an air stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: SILK WAVE SANGYO CO., LTDInventors: Yasuo OZAWA, Shinichi KURODA, Katsuhiko HOSOI, Tsunenori OZAWA
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Publication number: 20170104612Abstract: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kuroda
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Publication number: 20170099681Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi Morioka, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Shinichi KURODA, Ryo SAWAI
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Publication number: 20160280510Abstract: An elevator device enabling efficient evacuation of people left in a building is provided. The elevator device includes: an evacuation operation mode request switch provided in a hall of an elevator on a rescue floor; a car that if the evacuation operation mode request switch is kept in an operated state, keeps operating in an evacuation operation mode in which the car moves between the rescue floor and an evacuation floor; and an operation control device that is provided in the hall of the elevator on the rescue floor, and if the operation control device is operated when the car is stopped at the rescue floor, moves the car to the evacuation floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa KOBA, Shinichi KURODA, Takaharu UEDA, Ashiqur RAHMAN, David Willem, Lodewijk OFFERHAUS
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Publication number: 20160234721Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi MORIOKA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Shinichi KURODA, Ryo SAWAI
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Patent number: 9403344Abstract: A water-repellent film is formed on a first joint surface of a first member that contains any one of a macromolecular material, a metallic material, and an inorganic material. The water-repellent film is subjected to an activation treatment, and is thereby converted into a film having a high hydrophilicity and a nylon 6 contact angle of less than 25°. A second joint surface of a second member that contains at least a thermoplastic resin, which differs from the macromolecular material, is placed on the first joint surface having the film, whereupon the second member is heated and melted. Then, the molten second member is cooled and solidified in order to bond the first joint surface and the second joint surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Akita, Keiichi Sato, Shinichi Kuroda, Takahiko Kawai
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Publication number: 20160197407Abstract: Embodiments include a communication device, having a wireless communication processor. The communication device includes an antenna connected to a feeding point of the wireless communication processor. The communication device also includes a metal component disposed proximal the antenna and a circuit board including a ground plane. The communication device further includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line which connect the ground plane to two locations on the antenna, on one end and the other end of a location proximal the metal component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masato TANAKA, Shinichi KURODA, Takanori NAKAZAWA
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Patent number: 9351319Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Morioka, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Shinichi Kuroda, Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: 9232198Abstract: A method and system for predicting a moving picture to be implemented in an encoder is provided. The system includes a plurality of reference picture memory areas for storing reference pictures to be used for prediction and a prediction generation section that includes a motion compensator and memory updater. The motion compensator receives a parameter representing the motion between an image to be predicted and a reference picture stored in the reference picture memory area and a parameter representing the reference picture memory area to be used for prediction, and generates a predicted image by using the reference picture stored in the reference picture memory area indicated by the parameter representing the reference picture memory area. The memory updater carries out dynamic allocation of reference picture memory areas required for prediction and judges whether to store new reference pictures additionally.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi Sekiguchi, Kohtaro Asai, Tokumichi Murakami, Hirofumi Nishikawa, Shinichi Kuroda, Yoshimi Isu, Yuri Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9225945Abstract: A moving picture encoder and encoding method for encoding a moving picture signal are disclosed. The moving picture encoder includes a plurality of reference picture memory areas, each area storing picture data of a reference picture to be used for prediction; and a prediction picture generator including a motion compensator that generates the predicted picture by using the picture data stored in the reference picture memory area, a parameter representing a motion between an image to be predicted and the reference picture and prediction mode information indicating a prediction mode corresponding to a prediction method used for generating a predicted picture, and a memory updater that controls a timing of updating the picture data of a full frame stored in the reference picture memory area; and a multiplexer that multiplexes an information representing memory update in a bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shunichi Sekiguchi, Kohtaro Asai, Tokumichi Murakami, Hirofumi Nishikawa, Shinichi Kuroda, Yoshimi Isu, Yuri Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20150229374Abstract: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Shinichi KURODA
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Publication number: 20150151947Abstract: An elevator device includes: a reader, a reader, a determination section, and a request output section. The reader is provided in a hall of an elevator. The reader is provided in a car of the elevator. In the case where identification information has been read by the reader, the determination section determines whether or not the identification information has been read by the reader before the reading thereof by the reader. On the basis of the identification information read by the reader, the request output section outputs a registration request for a call to a control section. In the case where the determination section determines that the identification information has been read by the reader, the request output section does not output a registration request for a call corresponding to the identification information to the control section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kuroda
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Patent number: 9025557Abstract: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kuroda
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Publication number: 20140362844Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi MORIOKA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Shinichi KURODA, Ryo SAWAI