Patents by Inventor Shinichi Murakami
Shinichi Murakami 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: 12122406Abstract: An information display device includes a display unit configured to display information about an object such that the information about the object at least partially overlaps with forward view of a user, and a controller configured to control display of the display unit. The controller is configured to estimate or acquire a prospective moving direction of the object, acquire a sight-line frequency representing a frequency with which a sight-line of the user is directed to the object within a prescribed period, determine whether the sight-line frequency is equal to or more than a prescribed frequency threshold, and cause the display unit to display the prospective moving direction of the object at least on condition that the controller determines that the sight-line frequency is less than the frequency threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Seo, Minoru Higuchi, Shinichi Murakami, Koji Dan, Ryo Iitaka, Takashi Adachi, Takaya Yamazaki, Aya Sasaki
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Publication number: 20240246489Abstract: A drive assistance system includes a display object configurator that sets, as a display object or a non-display object, each of traffic participants recognized as alert objects from among nearby traffic participants, and a display controller that performs highlight image processing for highlighting the presence of the display object. When a first traffic participant set as the display object and a second traffic participant set as the non-display object are present in the vicinity of the subject vehicle and recognized as alert objects with the recognition of the first traffic participant by the driver being detected while the highlight image processing is performed, the display object configurator compares the degrees of influence of the first and second traffic participants, sets, as the display object, one of the first and second traffic participants designated on the basis of a result of the comparison, and sets the other as the non-display object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Koji DAN, Toshiaki SEO, Takaya YAMAZAKI, Minoru HIGUCHI, Aya SASAKI, Shinichi MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240223134Abstract: The high voltage amplifier includes: an input circuit configured to amplify an input signal and connected to a positive-electrode-side level shift circuit and a negative-electrode-side level shift circuit; a high-voltage output circuit including a positive-electrode-side output circuit configured to amplify a signal from the positive-electrode-side level shift circuit and a negative-electrode-side output circuit configured to amplify a signal from the negative-electrode-side level shift circuit; a feedback circuit which feeds back an output signal from the high-voltage output circuit to the input signal; a detection circuit configured to detect currents of the positive-electrode-side and negative-electrode-side output circuits, and an offset adjustment circuit configured to increase an offset amount of the negative-electrode-side level shift circuit to a negative side when a current of the positive-electrode-side output circuit increases, and increase an offset amount of the positive-electrode-side level shifType: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Ryohei KUDO, Tomoharu NAGASHIMA, Hisaaki KANAI, Wen Li, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Naoya ISHIGAKI
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Publication number: 20240017673Abstract: The virtual image display device comprises a surrounding state recognizer that acquires a travel direction distance and a lateral direction distance to an object, and a display controller that displays object icon images I1, I2 in a screen 51. The display controller is capable of switching between displaying an image in a normal mode, in which the display positions of the images I1, I2 move closer in a lateral direction to a lateral reference line L1 as the travel direction distance increases, and move farther away in a screen vertical direction from a screen bottom line L2 as the travel direction distance increases, and displaying the image in a magnification mode, in which a vertical scale, which is the ratio of the distance between the line L2 and the display positions in the screen vertical direction to the orientation direction distance, is larger than in the normal display mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Toshiaki SEO, Minoru HIGUCHI, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Koji DAN, Ryo IITAKA, Takaya YAMAZAKI, Aya SASAKI
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Publication number: 20230150528Abstract: An information display device includes a display unit configured to display information about an object such that the information about the object at least partially overlaps with forward view of a user, and a controller configured to control display of the display unit. The controller is configured to estimate or acquire a prospective moving direction of the object, acquire a sight-line frequency representing a frequency with which a sight-line of the user is directed to the object within a prescribed period, determine whether the sight-line frequency is equal to or more than a prescribed frequency threshold, and cause the display unit to display the prospective moving direction of the object at least on condition that the controller determines that the sight-line frequency is less than the frequency threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Toshiaki SEO, Minoru HIGUCHI, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Koji DAN, Ryo IITAKA, Takashi ADACHI, Takaya YAMAZAKI, Aya SASAKI
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Patent number: 11640718Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20230089868Abstract: A lighting control device that controls lighting fixtures includes: a command generator that generates one or more commands for controlling the lighting fixtures; a signal transceiver that communicates with the lighting fixtures; and a communication protocol setter that sets which one of two or more types of communication protocols is to be used. The two or more types of communication protocols include a first communication protocol. The signal transceiver simultaneously transmits, using the first communication protocol, a first command to each of the lighting fixtures. The first command is included in the one or more commands and requests a response. The communication protocol setter sets the first communication protocol as the communication protocol to be used for one or more of the lighting fixtures that have responded to the first command.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Kentaro UEDA, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Yohei HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230036590Abstract: A charged particle beam scanning module, a charged particle beam device, and a computer that can correct an INL error in a DAC circuit in real time. The charged particle beam scanning module includes a scanning controller configured to output a scanning digital signal of a charged particle beam, a DAC circuit configured to convert the scanning digital signal into a scanning analog signal and output the scanning analog signal, and an ADC circuit configured to convert the scanning analog signal into an evaluation digital signal. A sampling frequency at which the DAC circuit samples the scanning digital signal is a first frequency, and a sampling frequency at which the ADC circuit samples the scanning analog signal is a second frequency smaller than the first frequency. The scanning controller determines an output characteristic of the DAC circuit by evaluating the scanning digital signal and the evaluation digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Wen LI, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Makoto SUZUKI, Wataru MORI
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Patent number: 11567114Abstract: A capacitance detection area sensor includes capacitance sensor elements arranged in a two-dimensional array, is shaped into an appropriate shape, and capacitively coupled to an external electrode. To the external electrode, a sensing signal having a potential difference is supplied. The first and second sensor output signals are acquired from a capacitance sensor element capacitively coupled to the external electrode, at the timing of the sensing signal being a first signal and being a second signal, respectively. A differential signal is generated from a difference between the acquired first and second sensor output signals, and an image indicating the shape of the external electrode is generated based on the level of the differential signal, in different colors or different tones.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, OHT, INC.Inventors: Shigetoshi Sugawa, Rihito Kuroda, Tetsuya Goto, Hiroshi Hamori, Shinichi Murakami, Toshiro Yasuda
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Publication number: 20230010272Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam device with low blanking noise and improved signal detection accuracy. As means therefor, a charged particle beam device is configured by: a stage where a sample is mountable; a charged particle gun performing charged particle emission to the sample; a voltage source; a first switching circuit to which a voltage is supplied from the voltage source; a second switching circuit having one end connected to a ground; a third switching circuit having one end connected to the ground; a fourth switching circuit to which a voltage is supplied from the voltage source; a first blanking electrode connected to the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit; a second blanking electrode facing the first blanking electrode and connected to the third switching circuit and the fourth switching circuit; and a control circuit controlling the first switching circuit, the second switching circuit, the third switching circuit, and the fourth switching circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Shinichi MURAKAMI, Tomoyo SASAKI, Yuuji KASAI, Yuzuru MIZUHARA, Wen LI
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Patent number: 11211225Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam control device having improved signal detection accuracy. The charged particle beam control device (detection block) includes: a detector provided in a charged particle beam device, and configured to detect secondary electrons emitted from a sample by irradiating the sample with a charged particle beam and output an electric signal based on the detected secondary electrons; a signal wiring configured to transmit the electric signal; a noise detection wiring configured to detect a noise signal generated in the charged particle beam device; and an arithmetic circuit configured to generate a signal obtained by subtracting the noise signal from the electric signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Murakami, Makoto Suzuki, Shunsuke Mizutani, Akio Yamamoto, Wen Li
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Patent number: 11199511Abstract: Provided is a technique for specifying a medium more simply. A medium sensor device includes an antenna, a storage unit that stores a medium identification table in which a medium corresponding to an antenna impedance has been determined beforehand, and a medium specification unit that specifies the impedance of the antenna and specifies a medium in the vicinity of the antenna by referring to the medium identification table.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Ikeda, Masami Makuuchi, Shinichi Murakami, Ryo Kadoi, Tomoharu Nagashima
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Publication number: 20210370847Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo TANAKA, Toshiaki ITO, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Hiroshi MITANI, Jyouji WADA
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Publication number: 20210293866Abstract: A capacitance detection area sensor includes capacitance sensor elements arranged in a two-dimensional array, is shaped into an appropriate shape, and capacitively coupled to an external electrode. To the external electrode, a sensing signal having a potential difference is supplied. The first and second sensor output signals are acquired from a capacitance sensor element capacitively coupled to the external electrode, at the timing of the sensing signal being a first signal and being a second signal, respectively. A differential signal is generated from a difference between the acquired first and second sensor output signals, and an image indicating the shape of the external electrode is generated based on the level of the differential signal, in different colors or different tones.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, OHT Inc.Inventors: Shigetoshi SUGAWA, Rihito KURODA, Tetsuya GOTO, Hiroshi HAMORI, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Toshiro YASUDA
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Patent number: 11117529Abstract: A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a vehicle as a subject, an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the vehicle focused by the lens, a filter unit that rotatably supports a polarization filter which limits the light from the vehicle received by the image sensor, a sensor that detects a daytime mode or a night mode, a processor that disposes the polarization filter on a front side of the image sensor in the daytime mode, and disposes a band pass filter on the front side of the image sensor in the night mode, and an illuminator that irradiates the subject with IR light in the night mode. The filter unit switchably supports the polarization filter and the band pass filter that transmits the IR light.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20210109037Abstract: Provided is a technique for specifying a medium more simply. A medium sensor device includes an antenna, a storage unit that stores a medium identification table in which a medium corresponding to an antenna impedance has been determined beforehand, and a medium specification unit that specifies the impedance of the antenna and specifies a medium in the vicinity of the antenna by referring to the medium identification table.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazuki IKEDA, Masami MAKUUCHI, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Ryo KADOI, Tomoharu NAGASHIMA
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Publication number: 20210066033Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam control device having improved signal detection accuracy. The charged particle beam control device (detection block) includes: a detector provided in a charged particle beam device, and configured to detect secondary electrons emitted from a sample by irradiating the sample with a charged particle beam and output an electric signal based on the detected secondary electrons; a signal wiring configured to transmit the electric signal; a noise detection wiring configured to detect a noise signal generated in the charged particle beam device; and an arithmetic circuit configured to generate a signal obtained by subtracting the noise signal from the electric signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Shinichi Murakami, Makoto Suzuki, Shunsuke Mizutani, Akio Yamamoto, Wen Li
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Publication number: 20200387724Abstract: A driver state detection device includes at least two state detection units that include a first state detection unit and a second state detection unit that detect a state of a driver of a vehicle, in which the first state detection unit and the second state detection unit are disposed at positions between which the driver is interposed in a vehicle width direction, and the first state detection unit and the second state detection unit are disposed in front of a rear end of a driver's seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Shinichi Murakami, Toshihiro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10847344Abstract: In a charged particle beam control device, irradiation accuracy of an electron beam can be prevented from deteriorating due to a variation in a ground potential.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Murakami, Wen Li, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Masazumi Tone
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Patent number: 10692687Abstract: A low noise blanking unit corresponds to a wide range of acceleration voltages (from several times higher than related voltages to low acceleration voltages) of an electron beam. A blanking unit of the measurement and inspection device includes a blanking control circuit, in which (i) an upper and a lower blanking electrodes are arranged in the irradiation direction of an electron beam; electrodes on the reverse sides of two opposing electrodes in each of the blanking electrodes arranged in the same direction are connected with the ground, (ii) when blanking is ON, positive voltages are output to remaining electrodes of the upper blanking electrode and negative voltages are output to remaining electrodes of the lower blanking electrode, and (iii) when the blanking is OFF, the same ground reference signal is output to the remaining electrodes of the upper blanking electrode and to the remaining electrodes of the lower blanking electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Wen Li, Shinichi Murakami, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yuko Sasaki, Minoru Yamazaki, Hajime Kawano